Category: Forecast

January 2, 2020 Summary: The amount of cloud cover varies widely again from location to location.  Visalia was reporting an overcast based at 2,700 feet while Madera was reporting a low overcast of just 200 feet with many other locations reporting cloud cover to one extent or another.  Fairly strong upper level high pressure is…

January 2, 2020 Summary:  Visibilities at the usually reporting weather stations are generally anywhere from 3 to 10 miles.  Madera is an exception at this hour with a visibility of less than ¼ of a mile.  Strong upper level high pressure over the eastern Pacific is shifting into the eastern U.S. and will firm up…

Summary:  Visalia, Lemoore, and Hanford are reporting visibilities of less than ¼ of a mile as of 7:00am.  Most other locations has a visibility ranging from 1 to 3 miles.   California is on the far eastern side of upper level high pressure over the eastern Pacific with a north/northwest flow aloft.  The high will…

Summary: As of 1:00pm skies were mostly clear over much of the valley.  However, ground fog, which developed early this morning, lifted into a low overcast in eastern Kings County and northcentral Tulare County.  Both Visalia and Hanford are reporting an overcast based at just 200 feet.  The temperature at Visalia was 46 and 47…

Summary:  This morning is a pretty good preview of the remainder of the work week.  In other words, the race between morning fog and low clouds and areas of frost.  As of the time of this writing, both Lemoore and Visalia were down to ¼ mile visibility with other locations down to 1 to2 miles. …

December 30, 2019 Summary: Skies have cleared up nicely this afternoon with the exception of a band of low clouds along the Sierra Nevada foothills, mainly in Fresno and Madera Counties and some broken clouds in Kern County.  The center of circulation of the low pressure system which brought scant amounts of precipitation to the…

December 30, 2019 Summary:  As expected, the center of circulation of a low pressure system moved southward too far off shore to result in significant precipitation for the valley.  The heaviest rainfall amount I could find was .08 at Huron.  Heaviest precipitation was over the coastal mountains and along the coast where anywhere from .25…

December 29, 2019 Summary:  Clouds are increasing ahead of a developing low pressure system west of the Oregon coast this morning.  the evolution of this system will turn it into a closed low off the northern California coast this afternoon.  It will then race southward to a position roughly 250 miles west of Monterey by…

December 28, 2019 Summary: It is a cool but very nice afternoon by late December standards.  Skies are generally clear with temperatures in the lower 50s as of 1:00pm, just about where they should be for this time of year.  Upper level  high pressure currently overhead will be suppressed towards the southeast as a developing…

December 28, 2019 Summary:  Upper level high pressure is centered just off the southern California coast this morning and covers California and into the Desert Southwest.  Warmer air is moving in aloft as the freezing level has risen to 9,400 feet, a far cry from the 4,500 foot freezing level of 72 hours ago.  Skies…