May 16, 2019 Summary: Rainfall amounts thus far in Madera and Fresno Counties have exceeded .50 in many locations with as much as .33 in Kings County. Lesser amounts have been tallied in Tulare and Kern Counties. The main frontal band is now moving into the Sierra Nevada. It will move into western Nevada by…
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May 15, 2019/pm update
May 15, 2019 Summary: Temperatures in Kern County are running around five degrees cooler than 24 hours ago. North of the Kern County line, readings are between 10 to 12 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time and are in the lower 70s. mostly just trace amounts of rain have fallen so far at various…
May 15, 2019/report
May 15, 2019 Summary: Even though temperatures are milder this morning, running in the low 60s near sunrise, temperature outcomes will be cooler today due to heavy cloud cover and a surge of marine air. We remain on track for a major Pacific storm to begin to affect central California by late afternoon. As low…
May 14, 2019/pm update
May 14, 2019 Summary: Already this afternoon, mid and high level clouds are increasing ahead of a rapidly intensifying eastern Pacific trough of low pressure. Doppler radar is showing a considerable amount of virga, (which is rain falling but not reaching the ground), over northern California. Roughly 400 miles west of the northern California coast,…
May 14, 2019/report
May 14, 2019 Summary: The weather pattern which is currently evolving over the eastern Pacific is more reminiscent of January or February as opposed to mid May. A very large trough is extending southward from the Gulf of Alaska to off the northern and central California coast. Models are very consistent in showing the formation…
May 13, 2019/report
May 13, 2019 Summary: Short term, a weak ridge of upper level high pressure resides almost right overhead this morning. Temperatures will warm accordingly with the hottest locations pushing the 90 degree mark this afternoon. The high will begin to weaken and shift slowly towards the east in response to a deepening eastern Pacific trough…
May 11, 2019/report
Happy Mother’s Day! May 11, 2019 Summary: The grand champions of rainfall yesterday, at least at the stations I monitor, were 1.12 at Arvin and 1,16 at Stratford. Rainfall amounts varied widely. For example, Porterville received just a trace of rain. Lemoore received .43. Just down the road at Hanford, no measurable rain was…
May 10, 2019/pm report
May 10, 2019 Summary: How much rain that was received was certainly dependent upon location. Once you progress south of Fresno County, various pockets of real estate received impressive amounts of precipitation considering the time of year. I received emails from growers especially in the Arvin area with reports of 1.25” of precip. The…
May 10, 2019/report
May 10, 2019 Summary: Forecast models over the past several days have been amazingly accurate in the development and movement of the compact but rather robust low center currently moving through central California. As of the time of this writing, the center of circulation was almost directly over Hanford. Locally heavy thunderstorms are currently pounding…
May 9, 2019/report
May 9, 2019 Summary: A weak upper low near the southern Nevada/northern Arizona border is throwing some mid and high level clouds over the southern half of the valley. However, this is not the storm which will begin to affect central California later this afternoon into Saturday. An elongated trough of low pressure stretches from…