Category: Forecast

  March 3, 2018 Summary: As of the time of this writing, there were numerous showers generally moving from southwest to northeast across the valley and a solid area of rain and snow along the entire Sierra Nevada.  Colder air is beginning to move in aloft.  Satellite imagery shows a popcorn type pattern to the…

March 2, 2018 Summary: Numerous bands of showers are moving through the valley at this hour north of Kern County.  Doppler radar continues to indicate heavy precipitation is falling over the foothills and the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada.  It now appears as much as 3 to 4 feet of new snow may accumulate…

March 2, 2018 Summary: You can sure discern where the colder air is arriving from the current storm.  The freezing level overnight at Vandenberg AFB was still at 7,200 feet.  Over Oakland, the freezing level was down to 3,400 feet.  A major winter storm centered just off the southern Oregon coast continues to pinwheel bands…

March 1, 2018 Summary: Periods of showers continue to move across the San Joaquin Valley, mainly from northern Kings and Tulare Counties northward. As expected, precipitation in the foothills and mountains is constant as a strong west to east flow aloft is lifted by the Sierra Nevada, thus condensing into clouds and eventually heavy precipitation.…

March 1, 2018 Summary: Rain has spread as far south as Fresno County with even a few showers now spreading into northern Kings and Tulare Counties.  This is the first phase of what will be a very unsettled period of time which will last through Saturday.  The center of the low pressure system is off…

February 28, 2018 Summary: Clouds are beginning to increase this afternoon just north of Fresno as a major winter storm moves out of the Gulf of Alaska and eventually parks over the Pacific Northwest and northern California.  This system, unlike its predecessors, is taking an over water path on its way inland.  Thus, significant amounts…

February 28, 2018   Due to medical appointments, one report will be issued late this morning.  Fortunately, Mother Nature is cooperating. John and Trudy

February 27, 2018 Summary:  The center of a cold unstable upper low is centered somewhere near the Los Angeles basin at this hour and is beginning to shift to the east rather quickly.  The northern limit of the shower activity associated with this low is over the southern Sierra Nevada of Tulare and Kern Counties…

  February 27, 2018 Summary: For the few of you who have not looked outside so far this morning, it actually rained last night with precipitation amounts ranging from a few hundredths to as much as a quarter of an inch.  Not exactly a gullywasher, but it did prove rain is possible in central California…

February 26, 2018 Summary:  The center of circulation of a relatively cold upper low is just west of the Golden Gate this afternoon.  The associated cold front continues to move steadily down the valley.  As of the time of this writing, rain had reached into much of Fresno County and it will move into the…