Category: Forecast

December 6, 2020 A low center is developing over southeast Oregon and will dive into Nevada this afternoon.  Models track the low directly across central California tonight and Monday morning on a journey to its position off the northern Baja coastline Tuesday morning.  as this system moves over the Sierra Nevada late tonight and Monday,…

December 5, 2020 Summary: For the fifth of December, this is one balmy afternoon. As of 1:30, Bakersfield was reporting 68 degrees and Porterville 69.  Most other locations were in the mid 60s.  Dew points remain extremely low, which is discussed in the frost section.   In the overall pattern, a trough of low pressure…

December 5, 2020 Weak upper level  high pressure covers California and extends inland through the northern Rockies.  A weak trough of low pressure will  move into the Pacific Northwest later today.  This trough will morph into a closed low circulation then will drop southward through Utah and Nevada and through southern  California Monday.  It will…

December 4, 2020 Summary: Temperatures this afternoon, as of 1:30, are running in the low to mid 60s.  Dew points have risen considerably, but are still quite low.  This is discussed in the frost section below.  Fairly weak upper level  high pressure covers the eastern Pacific eastward through the Pacific Northwest while a low center…

December 4, 2020 Temperatures throughout the citrus belt this morning are generally 2 to 3 degrees colder than the previous night.  Though strong winds lowered dew points throughout the region, they are recovering at Kern County.  As of the time of this writing, the dew point in Bakersfield had risen to 16 as opposed to…

  December 3, 2020 Summary: A couple of times in a typical winter, the weather just plain gets crazy over the valley portion of Kern County and today is definitely one of those days.  The 1:00pm observation at Meadows Field in Bakersfield showed a temperature of 74 degrees with a dew point of -1 and…

December 3, 2020 As of 6:00am, the temperature at Meadows Field in Bakersfield was 60 degrees with a dew point of 7 and a relative humidity of 12%.  Winds were out of the southeast at 25, gusting to 35 MPH.  the following are peak wind gusts as of 6:00am:  Grapevine base 46, Mettler 42, Grapevine…

December 2, 2020 Summary: The current barometric pressure at Pocatello, Idaho was 30.51 inches of mercury while LAX was reporting 30.02.  that’s a good half inch of pressure difference between the northern Great Basin and the southern California coast.  Winds over the Kern County mountains are slowly  picking up.  At last report, Sandburg was reporting…

December 2, 2020 Upper level high pressure covers California, the Pacific Northwest, and southern British Columbia.  A low pressure system developing over Oklahoma is stretching into the Desert Southwest.  This is creating an east/northeast flow aloft.  In the meantime, surface strong high pressure is now centered over Idaho.  Pressures are much higher over Utah and…

December 1, 2020 Summary: A massive high pressure system at the upper levels of the atmosphere covers the eastern Pacific and the western1/4 of the U.S.  Surface high pressure is beginning to take shape over the Great Basin.  Already this afternoon there’s evidence of an off shore flow developing, though so far it’s weak.  The…