Category: Forecast

November 9, 2018 Summary: Fairly strong Santa Ana winds are buffeting the Kern County mountains but are slowly weakening with time.  This time around, these winds did not really make it very far out over the valley floor even though the CHP office at the bottom of the Grapevine continues to indicate winds out of…

November 9, 2018 Summary:  A moderately strong off shore flow continues this morning.  The Santa Anas are cranked up over southern California and over the Kern County mountains.  It’s been a close call so far as these winds have only made it down to the bottom of the Grapevine and a few miles out into…

November 8, 2018 Summary: Surface high pressure is quickly increasing in strength over the Great Basin.  Tonight through Friday morning, barometric pressure will be considerably higher over the interior west than they will be off shore, generating the typical Santa Ana winds over the Kern County mountains and the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada,…

November 8, 2018 Summary: currently, a dry wave of low pressure is moving through the interior west with the far western side of this feature moving through central California.  In the meantime, upper level pressure off shore is building north/northeast into the Pacific Northwest and will eventually ridge into the Yukon Territory of Canada.  The…

November 7, 2018 Summary: A trough of low pressure will dive southward through the interior west tonight and Thursday followed quickly by building surface high pressure which will peak Thursday night and Friday morning.  In the meantime, upper level high pressure will build farther north, eventually into the Yukon Territory of Canada over the weekend. …

November 7, 2018 Summary: This is the last day of a weather pattern which overall has resulted in above average temperatures.  A wave of low pressure will move through the Great Basin this afternoon and tonight followed by a building surface high over the Great Basin which will result in a fairly strong off shore…

November 6, 2018 Summary: The air on the valley floor is somewhat drier with the exception of Tulare County where dew points are in the low to mid 40s.  Most locations elsewhere have dew points down into the 30s.  The overall weather pattern still shows upper level high pressure centered several hundred miles off the…

November 6, 2018 Summary: The main players this morning are pretty much where they have been the past few days.  The center of upper level high pressure is several hundred miles off the southern California coast.  This is creating a northwest flow over the state.  Dew points are a bit lower than they have been. …

November 5, 2018 Summary: A dry, northwesterly flow aloft continues over California.  The center of the high’s circulation is several hundred miles off the southern California coast.  The main storm track continues to rotate over the top of the  high then into the Pacific Northwest.  Systems continue to weaken as they move into the Great…

November 5, 2018 Summary: This week will be a tad cooler than last week with readings generally running in the mid 70s at most locations.  The eastern Pacific high has slid a bit further towards the southwest which keeps the northwest flow going aloft.  The main Pacific storm track is still moving through the Pacific…