Category: Forecast

March 8, 2018 Summary: Upper level high pressure covers the eastern Pacific, most of California, and just off shore.  There remains a considerable amount of high, thin clouds moving over the top of the high and into California, but by and large there will be plenty of sunshine today and Friday.  A peculiar upper level…

  March 7, 2018 Summary: All the mid and high level clouds during the first half of the day are now moving eastward, so mostly sunny conditions will prevail from this point on.  Satellite imagery depicts a huge area of cloud cover covering the eastern Pacific off of Baja and southern California.  There doesn’t appear…

March 7, 2018 Summary: Overcast conditions prevailed last night.  Mid and high level moisture moved in from the west.  It’s being flung eastward by a large low well off the Pacific Northwest coast.  The cloud deck is high with a broken layer of clouds based at about 10,000 feet with a solid layer at 18,000…

March 6, 2018 Summary: Temperatures as of 1:00pm were in the upper 60s to even the lower 70s.  a few locations, especially in Kern County, will zip right up into the mid 70s not only today, but through Friday.  Short term, upper level high pressure is anchored off shore and extends inland over California.  The…

March 6, 2018 Summary: Upper level high pressure continues to build into central California via the eastern Pacific Ocean.  Rapid warming will continue through mid week as highs eclipse the 70 degree mark as early as this afternoon.  There are high clouds overrunning the high which will be visible from time to time.  Nevertheless, abundant…

  March 5, 2018 Summary: The air aloft is significantly warmer than it was 24 hours ago.  Yesterday, the freezing level was between 3,000 and 4,000 feet.  Today, over Oakland the freezing level was 6,000 feet and 6,800 feet over Vandenberg.  This is all indicative of upper level high pressure building in from the eastern…

March 5 2018 Summary: Even though it was cold last night with a  number of locations at or below freezing, a significant warm up will begin today.  Upper level  high pressure will begin to build in from the west.  Surface high pressure is also beginning to build over the Great Basin which, beginning today, will…

March 4, 2018 Summary: A northwest flow continues to generate upslope cloudiness, especially in Tulare and Kern Counties.  This flow is lifted by the Kern County mountains and the Sierra Nevada and condenses into clouds.  There is a bit of uncertainty as to whether or not these clouds hang in there throughout the night.  It’s…

March 4, 2018 Summary: After a day of showers and thunderstorms, conditions settled down overnight, returning mostly clear skies north of Tulare County.  The usual upslope clouds banked up against the west facing slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the valley facing slopes of the Tehachapi Mountains.  Currently, Porterville is reporting overcast conditions with the…

March 3, 2018 Summary: As of 1:00pm, isolated thunderstorms were developing over western Fresno County and up into Merced County.  Elsewhere, there were areas of showers all the way southward through Kern County.  As more daytime heating and sunshine cause warm currents of air moving upwards, no doubt more isolated to scattered thunderstorms will break…