Author: Trudy Hibler

October 13, 2022 For the third day in a row, the northern limit of the circulation patten from a weak cut off low is just west of San Diego. The northern limit of this system’s cloud cover is over Kern County where some mid and high level clouds are visible. High pressure a lot wraps…

October 11, 2022 Yesterday, thunderstorms broke out over the southern Sierra Nevada and the Kern County mountains. A couple of these actually generated some flash flooding. This is in response to a cut off low which yesterday was just west of the Golden Gate and this morning is just west of Vandenburg. This system will…

October 10, 2022 Satellite imagery depicts mid and high level clouds over the Kern County mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and over parts of the valley. This is from a weak upper air disturbance which has developed just west of San Francisco. models show this system morphing into a cut off low off the  central coast…

October 8, 2022 In the broad picture, upper level high pressure covers the eastern Pacific northward into the Pacific Northwest while a very weak cut off low is centered over northern Baja, or northwest Sonora. There is a great deal of cloud cover over northern Arizona and New Mexico via a very late season monsoon…

October 7, 2022 The current weather pattern is spotted with small features that really don’t mean much. Feature one is a very weak cut off low off of northern Baja. There is also an upper air circulation over northern California. These two features are embedded within upper level high pressure over the west and east…

October 6, 2022 You can’t really see it unless you view water vapor satellite imagery, but there is a weak cut off low developing over northern Baja which is embedded within upper level high pressure over the eastern Pacific and most of the western US. It’s possible this little system could rotate mid and high…

October 5, 2022 Short term, late summer type weather will prevail as upper level high pressure oriented northeast to southwest over California prevails. Models are still projecting the development of a cut off low over northern Baja Thursday, remaining in that position through the weekend. This will turn the winds aloft east to west. It’s…

October 4, 2022 Short term, a ridge of upper level high pressure is oriented northeast to southwest across the west coast. The pleasant temperatures of the past few days will be replaced by late summer type temperatures as we will be moving into the mid 90s at most locations Thursday through Sunday. Hottest locations will…

October 3, 2022 The weather this week will be uneventful. Temperatures yesterday were pretty close to seasonal and will rise to marginally above average today and Tuesday as the next ridge of upper level high pressure slowly builds in from the west. The marine layer is 2,400 feet deep this morning which, theoretically, is deep…

October 1, 2022 If you liked yesterday, you’ll like the weather through at least Monday. two main features are governing our weather. First is a stationary low over Idaho and a large ridge of upper level high pressure stretching from the eastern Pacific to British Columbia. This puts California in a dry, northwesterly flow aloft,…