Category: Forecast

January 20, 2023 Most of the upslope clouds which had formed behind yesterday’s  frontal passage have dissipated into mostly clear to partly cloudy conditions. Temperatures at midday were right around the 50 degree mark. For at least the next week, and possibly ten days, dry weather will prevail as we fall back into a dry…

January 20, 2023 There remains a considerable amount of cloud cover along the eastern and southern flanks of the valley. This is due to upsloping as a northwesterly flow above the valley is lifted by the Kern County Mountains and the southern Sierra Nevada. These clouds will slowly dissipate today as drier air moves in…

January 19, 2023 There are a few lingering light showers in Kern County and southeast Tulare County which will end over the next hour or two. Otherwise, skies north of Tulare County are mostly clear. Northwesterly winds are moving down the center and west side of the valley. They will continue to regenerate upslope clouds…

January 19, 2023 A band of light showers roughly 50 miles wide is moving down the valley at this hour. The showers have already ended in Merced County. These showers are being generated by a cold front from a low pressure system now moving into the Great Basin. This activity will be over by mid…

January 18, 2023 As of 1:00pm, this morning’s areas of fog were dissipating from the center of the valley. Satellite imagery was also depicting well the clouds which are increasing over northern California ahead of the next Pacific storm. This system is very minor compared to the storms that battered California in recent weeks. The…

January 18, 2023 The fog is so far fairly patchy this morning as the atmosphere remains somewhat churned up after that last weather system moved through. The next system of note is weak and will move through the Pacific Northwest and into the Great Basin as an inside slider. Light snow showers will spread down…

January 16, 2023 There is a considerable amount of upslope clouds being generated by a northwest flow aloft above the valley floor. Over Bakersfield, the ceiling is 3,700 feet, above Porterville 2,900 feet, above Visalia 1,600  feet and above Fresno just 500 feet. Obviously the cloud deck is rather ragged. With abundant moisture on the…

January 17, 2023 The last in the series of endless Pacific storms is finally to our east. There is a chance of light showers Wednesday night and Thursday morning, however it won’t be as drenching as the atmospheric rivers which have blasted their way through California. Yesterday’s system is now moving through the Desert Southwest…

January 16, 2023 Most of the shower activity has been concentrated along the Sierra Nevada foothills today with widely scattered showers elsewhere. The center of the surface low is over Nevada while the main upper low is over the San Francisco Bay Area. Doppler radar indicates a large area of showers around the Monterey Bay…

January 16, 2023 Heaviest precipitation is currently over Stanislaus and Merced Counties and over the southern Sierra Nevada north of the Kern County line. Scattered showers are occurring elsewhere. A number of locations have recorded more than .50 so far with a few others over 1.00. the main trough of low pressure will move through…