Category: Forecast

November 10, 2020 Summary: A second night of subfreezing temperatures as readings were pretty similar to those of the previous night with widespread upper 20s and lower 30s.  the air aloft is certainly beginning to moderate.  Freezing levels have gone from just over 4,000 feet 24 hours ago to 9,500 feet this morning, according to…

November 9, 2020 Summary: Outside of some upslope clouds in Kern and eastern Tulare Counties, skies are relatively clear this afternoon.  Some high clouds are embedded within a northwesterly flow aloft moving into California which will move overhead tonight, but they won’t be dense enough to slow the radiational cooling process down enough to prevent…

November 9, 2020 Summary: After a weekend of showers, isolated thunderstorms, gusty winds, and small hail in a few locations, skies have cleared out.  The last of the upslope clouds in Kern County exited, stage left, about 3:00am.  With clear skies during the early morning hours, temperatures plummeted into the upper 20s to the lower…

November 8, 2020 Summary: Quite an active afternoon in the valley.  As scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms are moving from northwest to southeast across the valley, a few locations in Fresno and Tulare Counties were nailed by some brief heavy rain and pea sized hail.  Showers will continue into the evening then will taper off.…

November 8, 2020 Summary: Doppler radar at this hour indicates only widely scattered showers over the valley floor.  However, snow is widespread up and down the Sierra Nevada.  The freezing level this morning over Vandenburg AFB stands at 4,500 feet.  The temperature at Sandburg at 4,100 feet was 32 degrees as of 6:00am.  No doubt…

November 7, 2020 Summary: As of 1:00pm, the temperature at Bakersfield was a mid winter like 49 and only 47 at Porterville.  More locations further north where the rain had ended were generally in the low to mid 50s.  As of 1;00PM, Tehachapi was at 32 degrees, giving you a good idea where the snow…

November 7, 2020 Summary: As of the time of this writing, showers were widespread throughout the valley.  The center of circulation of the cold core low is right overhead at this hour along with its  pool of cold, unstable air.  The freezing level which was near 13,000 feet two days ago, is down to 4,600…

November 6, 2020 Summary: Temperatures at this hour are running anywhere from 7 to 15 degrees cooler than 24 hours ago north of Kern County.  In Kern County, temperatures are 3 to 5 degrees cooler.  Strong, gusty, northwesterly winds are moving down the valley.  Currently, winds at the FAT are sustained at 22 MPH.  Porterville…

November 6, 2020 Summary: Rapid changes are occurring over the western United States this morning.  a fairly strong and quite cold low pressure system is off the California/Oregon border at this hour.  Light showers have spread over roughly the northern one-fourth of California and will spread all over northern California by mid afternoon.  As the…

November 5, 2020   We will be out of the office this afternoon.  Reports will resume Friday, November 6.   Summary: Satellite imagery this morning shows high clouds being drawn northward from a weak upper air disturbance off the northern Baja coast which will become visible in the south valley for a time this morning. …