Category: Forecast

January 13, 2019 Summary:  Winds are already picking up over the Kern County portion of the valley floor.  Lamont is reporting winds out of the east/southeast at 15, gusting to 36 MPH, Mettler 15 MPH gusting to 26, and at the bottom of the Grapevine at the CHP office winds as strong as 46 MPH …

January 13, 2019 Summary: Outside of some patchy fog, skies are mostly clear at this early morning hour.  Satellite imagery early this morning shows the next system looking eerily similar to the storm that moved through southern California yesterday with locally heavy rain.  This system, like its predecessor, is being blocked by a strong ridge…

  January 12, 2019 Summary:  Doppler radar precipitation estimates indicate as much as a third of an inch of rain fell over localized areas of Kern  County with a tenth of two in southern Kings and Tulare Counties.  Generally, just very light amounts fell north of that line.  All precipitation has ended over the valley…

January 12, 2019 Summary: The latest storm which is currently affecting southern California and parts of central California is centered right near Santa Barbara at this hour.  This system has been a complete wash out for much of central California with the exception of the west side, the valley portion of Kern County, and the…

January 11, 2019 Summary:  An interesting weather system is stretched from off the Oregon coast southwestward along the California coast and to west of the Channel Islands.  Bands of rain are rotating from southeast to northwest, coming on shore along the central coast and making very slow eastward progression.  The latest afternoon models still mainly…

January 11, 2019 Summary: An elongated low pressure system stretching from off the southern Oregon coast to off the southern California coast is moving southeastward.  Showers are beginning to show up on Doppler radar out of Monterey with light showers just off the central coast.  Precipitation is beginning to move into the San Francisco Bay…

January 11, 2019 This morning’s report will be late due to a medical appointment. Thank you, John and Trudy

January 10, 2019 Summary:  The fog and low clouds have dissipated in some areas while most other locations were reporting a low overcast.  Temperatures as of 2:00pm were generally in the mid to upper 50s with dew points in the low to mid 50s.  with a generally clear sky during the first half of the…

January 10, 2019 Summary: No sooner did yesterday’s storm move off to the east than widespread fog and low clouds moved into the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys.  The fog layer is dense enough for clearing to be at a premium this afternoon.  Bakersfield, Hanford, Visalia, and Fresno are all reporting a visibility at or…

January 9, 2019 Summary:  A band of light precipitation roughly 50 miles wide extends from southern Fresno County on the north south/southwest to Bakersfield on the south.  There are some locations along the central coast which have received copious amounts of precipitation from this storm.  Some along the Highway 1 corridor right along the beaches…