Category: Forecast

January 5, 2023 Winds have decreased in most locations as of this hour, although gusts to 30 to 40 mph are still occurring from Fresno County north. By far the grand champion wind gust yesterday was 106 mph atop Grapevine peak at the top of the Ridge Route. A 60 mph gust was reported just…

January 4, 2023 How would you like to be picnicking on top of Grapevine Peak this afternoon as the observation at noon reported winds of 46 mph, gusting to 84. Unfortunately, as of the time of this report, the report for the bottom of the Grapevine was unavailable. However, Digier Rd. Hilltop at the base…

January 4, 2023 If were to pick a word for the storm now approaching California it would be “impressive”. Satellite imagery depicts a full blown Pacific storm with a sculpted looking comma configuration and an atmospheric river pouring into the southwest portion of the storm. Behind the cold front, which is still well out to…

January 3, 2023 It’s not a bad day for early January. As of the time of this writing, warmer locations were teasing with 60 degrees. Today was quite literally the calm before the storm. A mammoth Pacific storm with a center of circulation measured at 960 millibars, the lowest pressure we’ve seen this winter.  …

January 3, 2023 The weak weather system that moved through overnight dropped meager amounts of precipitation with most locations recording less than .10 of an inch. That will not be the case with the next event which will occur Wednesday afternoon and continue well into Thursday evening. A powerful Pacific storm will center off the…

January 2, 2023 Light showers have spread across the valley ahead of a weak warm front which has moved on shore along the Coast Range. Behind the warm front is a cold front which will drop the heaviest rain from this weak system. Most locations will record no more than .25 or so on the…

January 2, 2023 The leading edge of the next weather system off shore is roughly 75 miles off the central coast. Doppler radar indicates there’s a fairly large area of light rain which will reach the coast over the next several hours, spreading into the valley this afternoon. The system’s dynamics are considerably weather than…

We apologize. John is “under the weather” and is unable to focus on doing a full report. We will likely do a short version of the report tomorrow morning.   December 31, 2022 The latest AR is moving slowly southward through central California. This latest wave will move through later this evening. We may actually…

December 31, 2022 The latest atmospheric river of air is moving on shore in northern California from roughly Santa Clara on the south to Sonoma on the north. Along this band of energy are strong, gusty winds and heavy rain. This whole area of active weather will slowly sag southward during the course of the…

December 30, 2022 We remain in a temporary reprieve from a pattern that continues to steer multiple waves of low pressure inland, running from west to east across the Pacific and into California. The next of these systems will begin to spread rain over central California later tonight, continuing through Saturday night. Using Porterville as…