Category: Forecast

February 13, 2019 Summary:  Bakersfield at this hour is reporting a temperature of 63 degrees, which is 29 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago.  The remainder of the valley is 6 to 19 degrees warmer.  Obviously, we’ve had an air mass change as that AR has arrived.  However, for most of the day, the  juiciest…

February 12, 2019 Summary: I am looking at an amazing satellite in  motion across the eastern Pacific Ocean and into California.  Three separate weather systems will combine for quite a rain event over the next 60 hour or so beginning later tonight.  A very strong subtropical low is moving northeastward between the California coast and…

February 12, 2019 Summary:  After a very cold night with widespread mid to upper 20s, a temporary round of much warmer and very wet conditions is at hand.  The absolute worst case scenario will develop tonight through Thursday night along the Sierra Nevada.  There is an elongated low stretching from Washington west/southwest about 2,000 miles…

  February 11, 2019 Summary: Even though temperatures are running 2 to 4 degrees warmer than 24 hours ago, as of 1:00pm most locations were only about 50.  Dew points are 6 to 10 degrees lower than yesterday, which does not spell for a good night tonight.  The air aloft remains extremely cold with the…

  February 11, 2019 Summary: For the eleventh of February, it was extremely cold last night with every frost station between 27 and 30 degrees with one location at a toasty 31.  Bitter cold was evident overnight over the Sierra Nevada.  As of 7:00am it was minus 2 at Shaver Lake and minus 18 at…

February 10, 2019 Summary: it is a very cold afternoon considering it is already the 10th of February.  Porterville at 1:00PM was reporting a temperature of just 44 with widespread mid to upper 40s elsewhere.  Skies have cleared over the northern half of the valley where temperatures are struggling to reach 50 degrees.  The center…

February 10, 2019 Summary: Rain is widespread from Modesto down as far south as northwest Kern County.  A frontal system is currently in the northern San Joaquin Valley.  Behind the front in the Sacramento Valley, temperatures have dropped into the upper 30s, compared to mid 40s at most locations from Madera southward.  The current temperature…

February 9, 2019 Summary: We still have several more hours of dry weather before modified arctic storm number 2, currently centered just west of Eugene, Oregon, moves south/southeast into southern Oregon and northern California late tonight and Sunday morning.  Considering this system’s origins are in northwest Canada, you can well imagine where snow levels are…

February 9, 2019 Summary: The first of two cold low pressure systems went right through the valley.  The center of circulation is now moving into the Sierra Nevada and will move into western Nevada this afternoon.  Even so, the air behind the low and its associated cold front is relatively cold and unstable.  A small…

February 8, 2019 Summary: This morning, on the way to the doctor’s office, I received a ticket for doing 72 in a 55. My first ticket since the mid 70s.  My wife does not feel sorry for me (she keeps laughing at me), nor does the rest of my family, but I will not allow…