December 27, 2019 Summary: Skies have cleared this afternoon over most of the valley. All of the regularly reporting stations were indicating mostly clear skies with the exception of Fresno which was reporting a broken layer of clouds based at 2,500 feet. Dew points are fairly uniform as of 1:00pm and are running in the…
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December 27, 2019/report
December 27, 2019 Summary: Where it cleared along the west side of the valley, dense fog quickly formed overnight. Upslope clouds are banked up against the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada and the north facing slopes of the Kern County mountains. The potent storm that pummeled the southern 1/3 of California yesterday has now…
December 26. 2019/pm update
December 26, 2019 Summary: meteorologically speaking, this has been a fascinating storm system to watch. The center of circulation is now approaching the California/Mexico border near San Diego. The counterclockwise circulation around this storm has fed a very moist layer of air around the top of this system and into the Kern County portion of…
December 26, 2019/report
December 26, 2019 Summary: A rather compact but nevertheless robust winter storm is centered just to the southwest of Santa Barbara at this hour. A wide swath of precipitation is moving into interior sections of southern California. The counterclockwise circulation around this storm is spreading showers from southeast to northwest across the San Joaquin Valley,…
Christmas morning/report
December 25, 2019 Summary: Widely scattered light showers are moving across the valley early this Christmas morning. the main focus is a cold low which is roughly 250 miles west/northwest of the Golden Gate this morning. models have been consistent in showing this storm moving southward just off the central coast late this afternoon through…
December 24, 2019/report
December 24, 2019 Summary: The last vestiges of the storm that brought fairly substantial amounts of precipitation to especially Kern and Tulare Counties have moved into the Sierra Nevada. In fact, the main area of low pressure has now moved into Arizona. A brief dry slot will occur for this Christmas Eve day and night. …
December 23, 2019/pm update
December 23, 2019 Summary: We have an odd weather pattern with this storm. There are two surface lows. One is just west of LA with the second near Reno, Nevada with a stationary front running north to south right through the San Joaquin Valley. Batches of showers continue to run from south to north up…
December 23 2019/report
December 23, 2019 Summary: Rainfall amounts so far from the current storm have been fairly light, ranging from around .10 to about .25 around the valley. As of the time of this writing, Doppler radar was indicating scattered light showers were falling over various locations in the San Joaquin Valley. Doppler radar over southern California…
December 22, 2019/report
December 21, 2019 Summary: Very strong surface pressure differences continue between the interior and an approaching low pressure system which, as of 6:30am, was centered just to the west of San Francisco. A cold front extends from the low just a few miles off the central coast. The following are peak wind gusts as of…
December 21, 2019/pm update
December 20, 2019 Summary: Winds are still blowing over the valley portion of Kern County out of the east or southeast, but only in some areas so far. Here are a few peak wind gusts as of 1:00pm: Tehachapi Hwy east of Bakersfield 20 MPH, Lamont 20MPH, Ranch Road 24 MPH, Mettler 23 MPH, the…