Category: Forecast

January 7, 2020 Summary: Today is the first time this winter where no clearing has occurred from the central Sacramento Valley southward to the lower slopes of the Kern County mountains.  It’s also the coldest afternoon of the winter thus far.  As of 1:00pm, Bakersfield and Porterville were each reporting 47 degrees, Lemoore was at…

January 7, 2020 Summary:  Every location from a Hanford/Visalia line north is reporting ¼ mile visibility or less.  Porterville and Bakersfield are reporting a low overcast at around 500 feet above the valley floor.  Temperatures this afternoon will be governed by the amount of clearing at any given location.  Mid to upper 40s can be…

January 6, 2020 Summary: Bakersfield, Porterville, and Visalia had hazy sunshine as of 1:00pm while Lemoore was reporting a broken low overcast at 800 feet and Fresno and Madera still had a low overcast based at around 1,000 feet, which will probably burn off before the day is through.  With a nice warm air inversion…

January 6, 2020 Summary:  As of 7:00am, Bakersfield was reporting a low overcast based at 2,500 feet.  The overcast at Porterville was just 300 feet.  The fog was down on the deck at Visalia with a report of ¼ mile visibility, ½ mile at Fresno, and ¾ of a mile at Madera.  Temperature forecasting will…

January 5, 2020 Summary: As of 1:00pm, low clouds were extensive along the eastern and southern flanks of the San Joaquin Valley while the west side north of Kern County had cleared out.  Temperatures where the low overcast is prevalent are only in the low to mid 40s this afternoon.  The base of the overcast…

January 5, 2020 Summary:  Porterville, Visalia, and Fresno are reporting a visibility of less than ¼ of a mile as of 7:00am.  Madera was down to ½ mile while Bakersfield was indicating upslope clouds based at 4,300 feet.  This is all due to a weather disturbance which moved through overnight.  The west/northwest flow behind the…

January 4, 2020 Summary: For the second day in a row, temperatures have risen into the low to mid 60s.  A dry disturbance moved through uneventfully early this morning.  another wave of weak low pressure will move through the Pacific Northwest and northern California Sunday.  This will lower temperatures by 7 to 10 degrees or…

January 4, 2020 Summary:  A weak trough of low pressure and its associated cold front are currently moving through northern California.  The frontal system itself extends from northwest Nevada southwestward to just south of San Francisco then southwestward out over the Pacific Ocean.  Light precipitation has spread as far south as a Bay Area/Sacramento line,…

January 3, 2020 Summary: Temperatures this afternoon are running anywhere from 5 to 7 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago and are generally in the low to mid 60s.  That’s a good 7 to 10 degrees above average.  This is partly due to an upwelling of high pressure brought on by an approaching trough of…

January 3, 2020 Summary:  Pretty much the same old thing this morning with areas of fog and low clouds intermixed with areas that have mostly clear but hazy conditions.  Today and Saturday will be the warmest we’ll see in a while as upper level high pressure centered off the coast is suppressed towards the southeast…