Category: Forecast

  December 11, 2019 Summary: Despite a weak trough of low pressure that went through overnight, fog had no problem reforming on the ground.  All locations from Merced southward in the valley are reporting a visibility of ¼ mile or less with the exception of the Lemoore Naval Air Station which is reporting a low…

December 10, 2019 Summary: Conditions are quite variable as of 1:00pm.  Visalia, Lemoore, and Hanford are all reporting a low overcast based at 300 feet while Bakersfield has a high overcast with Madera reporting generally clear skies and a temperature of 57.  The freezing level is quite high again, standing at around 11,000 feet so…

December 10, 2019 Summary: For the second morning in a row, every location from the base of the Tehachapi Mountains to the lower Sacramento Valley is reporting ½ mile visibility or less with most locations at ¼ mile visibility or less.  It’s a bit of a tricky forecast for the next 24 hours.  The layer…

December 9, 2019 Summary: the low clouds and fog have cleared from the Sacramento Valley southward through much of the northern San Joaquin Valley.  In the central and south valley, highway visibilities are again decent.  The low cloud deck has risen to between 700 and 1000 feet above the valley floor.  As strong upper level…

December 9, 2019 Summary: Congratulations!  We are now in a full blown fog regime for the first time this winter season.  Every location from Marysville in the Sacramento Valley to the base of the Kern County mountains is reporting ½ mile visibility with many locations down to less than ¼ of a mile.  Infrared satellite…

December 8, 2019 Summary: Scattered showers continue to move across the valley this morning.  Even so, rainfall amounts have been quite light throughout the San Joaquin Valley with many locations receiving less than .10.  As of 6:00am, Bakersfield had yet to record measurable  precipitation.  Once the daytime heating effect gets underway, isolated thunderstorms will be…

Summary: The center of circulation of a very active Pacific storm is now moving into northwest California with showers and thunderstorms over the northern portion of the state.  Precipitation has been disappointing over the valley floor with no location recording more than .10 as of 1:00pm.  Now that the daytime heating process is underway, a…

Summary: The first phase of the current storm has moved through with just light showers, mainly north of Kern County.  Freezing levels have finally begun to come down from 11,000 feet yesterday to this morning’s level of 7,900 feet.  The wind soundings in the Hanford Doppler radar system shows winds out of the south at…

December 6, 2019 Summary: We are still tracking a large Pacific storm located roughly 400 miles off the northern California coast.  The frontal band from this system is moving very slowly towards the east but  has spread precipitation over northern California from roughly Santa Rosa north.  There is one rather unexpected element to this pattern. …

December 6, 2019 Summary: Skies in  most locations are pretty clear this morning.  There is patchy dense fog in a few places.  A massive area of low pressure is off the Oregon/northern California coast with a cold front flanked on the east side of the storm, extending southwestward over the Pacific Ocean.  Precipitation has begun…