February 21, 2018 Summary: The first piece of weather information that really stuck out in preparing this report was dew points. They are generally in the upper teens to the lower twenties. We’ll discuss this in the frost discussion. The freezing level over Vandenberg taken earlier this morning was 4,400 feet and 3,500 feet up…
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February 21, 2018/report
February 21, 2018 Summary: In my nearly 30 years as a meteorologist, this is by far the worse freeze I’ve seen at this time of year. I talked with one grower earlier this morning and his operation has been devastated. No doubt many of you have also suffered great losses. Sadly, this isn’t over yet…
February 20, 2018/frost update
February 20, 2018 Frost Update: With cloud cover moving in, we feel a frost update is unnecessary. Temperatures should be several degrees over what they were last night. Next report: Approximately 10:00am Wednesday morning
February 20, 2018/pm report
February 20, 2018 Summary: The coldest locations in the valley this morning fell to 21 degrees, this was at three separate locations with most locations huddled in the mid 20s. tonight’s forecast is a bit more complex than I’d like. A dry low pressure system is currently centered near Crescent City and will move southward…
February 20, 2018/report
February 20, 2018 Summary: Widespread mid to upper 20s were prevalent through all of the ag stations as of 6:30 this morning. There were also some low 20s which will be discussed below in the frost section, but in some cases, once you get away from the central and west side of the valley, some…
February 19, 2018/frost update
February 19, 2018 Frost Update: it is pretty ugly out there in some areas tonight. A few locations have already dropped to 28 degrees as early as 9:00pm. The following are current temperature generally recorded between 9:45 and 10:00pm. Madera 28, Sanger 27, Fowler 25, Orange Cove 29, Reedley 29, Orosi 29, Ivanhoe 27, Lindcove…
February 19, 2018/pm update
Summary: This is the night we’ve been pointing to for the past week or so. Strong upper level high pressure covers the off shore waters and ridges northward into Alaska while an Arctic trough of low pressure covers the interior western United States. We remain sandwiched between these two features. The combination of features has…
February 19, 2018/report
Summary: Temperatures are below freezing over the Pacific Northwest down to the beaches. Snow showers are occurring along the coast with isolated snow showers over the Coast Range with snow on the hills just above Monterey Bay. There are also light snow showers occurring over the Sierra Nevada and I noted the freezing level above…
February 18, 2018/pm report
February 18, 2018 Summary: The leading edge of the cold air mass has now moved through the Sacramento Valley and is entering the northern San Joaquin Valley. Even though temperatures are quite pleasant this afternoon, this will change in a hurry tonight through Thursday. Light snow showers are occurring over many mountain areas of northern…
February 18, 2018/report
February 18, 2018 Summary: The center of circulation of a very cold, moisture starved upper low is over western Washington this morning. The low center will begin to carve out a bitterly cold modified Arctic weather system over the Great Basin. California will be on the western rim of the low, sandwiched between the low…