Author: Trudy Hibler

September 30, 2022 The various features on this morning’s model information have changed very little over the past 24 hours, meaning our weather will change very little over the next several days. A ridge of high pressure covers the eastern Pacific Ocean with California parked on the eastern rim of the high while a weak…

September 29, 2022 A weak trough of low pressure is currently moving through the Pacific Northwest. It has effectively shaved off the northern flank of our ridge of upper level high pressure. Even though the high has not completely broken down, it has weakened somewhat, allowing temperatures to lower closer to seasonal averages. The marine…

September 28, 2022 Only subtle changes will occur in the world of weather for the next week to ten days. Currently, there’s a large ridge of upper level high pressure blanketing much of the western US. The northern flank of the high will break down, allowing a weak weather system to move through the Pacific…

September 27, 2022 Lemoore topped out at 100 degrees yesterday. All other locations were between 96 and 99. Temperatures will only slowly begin to. come down over the next several days, but even then will remain above late September values. The freezing level  over Oakland taken earlier this morning is late summer like. It will…

September 26, 2022 A giant ridge of upper level high pressure extends from the Desert Southwest northward to western Canada and off shore of the Pacific Northwest. The high will dominate our pattern through Wednesday with temperatures soaring well above average. We will incrementally come down this week. a weak trough will move through Wednesday…

September 24, 2022 Now that it’s autumn on the calendar, it’s still summer on the weather map as a massive upper level high covers the western states and much of the eastern Pacific. Models show this to be a persistent feature with readings in the mid to upper 90s today through next Thursday. With some…

September 23, 2022 A blanket of upper level high pressure now extends from Texas to California. Over the next 72 hours,, the high will link up with another high over the eastern Pacific and will build a ridge northward into the Pacific Northwest. At the surface, barometric pressure is a tad higher over the Great…

the low pressure responsible for the unsettled weather of the past few days is moving out of northern California and will be settling over Idaho this afternoon. The air mass in its wake is still mild so we have one more day of moderate temperatures. Even though this is the official first day of fall,…

September 21, 2022 The low pressure system which had been hanging off shore at northern California for the past three days is now making its move inland through northern California. This is now a weaker version of the storm and only spotty light showers are showing up from roughly Sacramento north. The low will continue…

September 20, 2022 That same band of moisture which all day yesterday was feeding from south to north across mainly the western half of the central valley is remaining in place but has lost the deeper subtropical moisture, thus the light showers have ended. Doppler radar is indicating some light showers are falling, though, in…