Category: Forecast

  December 1, 2018 Summary: The cold frontal portion of the current storm is moving fairly rapidly southeastward through the valley this afternoon.  Generally light showers are reaching into Kings and Tulare Counties and will move into Kern County over the next couple of hours.  Doppler radar from Merced north indicates only a few radar…

December 1, 2018 Summary: Light showers have rapidly spread as far south as a Salinas/Merced line at this hour and have spread down the Sierra Nevada into Fresno County.  Light showers will continue to move down the valley today, though I must admit Doppler radar returns are rather anemic.  We’ve been advertising this as a…

November 30, 2018 Summary: Skies have cleared along the west side north of Kern County and over portions of the central valley from roughly Visalia north.  A great deal of cloudiness remains along the east side of the valley as clouds bank up against the west facing slopes of the Sierra Nevada and more especially…

November 30, 2018 Summary: Doppler radar at this hour indicates some lingering light showers are falling over Tulare County and eastern Kern County this morning.  By and large, though, this massive storm system has moved off to the east.  A strong west/northwest flow aloft is packing in behind the storm and will keep upslope clouds…

November 29, 2018 Summary: This has been one heck of a storm event which is by no means winding down as of yet.  Numerous showers are occurring throughout the valley.  In addition, heavy thunderstorms are pounding parts of Kings County and on a line from Visalia to Delano.  These storms are moving east at about…

November 29, 2018 Summary: The center of circulation of a deep low pressure system both at the surface and aloft is making its move on northern California.  Rainfall amounts already have pushed one inch on the valley floor, mainly in Madera and Fresno Counties.  The subtropical rain band which was overhead yesterday and for a…

November 28, 2018 Summary: A steady stream of subtropical moisture has formed a train across the eastern Pacific Ocean then inland from Monterey County on the north to San Luis Obispo County on the south.  In the valley and over the Sierra it’s Madera on the north and roughly Visalia on the south.  This moisture…

November 28, 2018 Summary: For more than a week now, we’ve been advertising a big weather event beginning today and lasting through Thursday night.  This event has already begun.  Rain is widespread over Madera and Fresno Counties and northern Tulare and Kings Counties.  This band is almost a miniature AR, stretching from off the central…

November 27, 2018 Summary: Light showers have spread as far south as the northern San Joaquin Valley this afternoon.  A few showers may reach as far south as Fresno County tonight, but it appears conditions will remain dry, at least for tonight anyway.  Satellite imagery is quite telling this afternoon as it depicts a rapidly…

November 27, 2018 Summary: Fog is not nearly as widespread this morning due to varying amounts of  high clouds that moved through during the course of the night.  A cold front is now spreading rain and snow over northern California.  Precipitation will spread into parts of central California later this afternoon and tonight, though amounts…