Category: Forecast

The first challenge this evening will be overnight low temperatures, discussed below in the frost summary. As of midday, there was a combination of sunshine and scattered clouds over most of the valley. Dew  points as of midday are in the mid 40s with air temperatures in the low to mid 50s. With mostly clear…

Most of the valley early this morning is covered in either dense fog or low clouds. Bakersfield is reporting an overcast based at 4,600 feet while Porterville and Visalia report overcast between 5,000 and 5,500 feet. Fresno is down to ¾ mile visibility in fog while Merced County has fairly widespread dense fog. Now that…

December 6, 2022 A weak upper low has moved southward parallel to the coast and is centered just west of Monterey this afternoon. Doppler radar shows widely scattered light showers over southern Monterey County and San Luis Obispo County. The low will continue heading southeastward and will be centered over Kern County during the predawn…

December 6, 2022 Light showers are drifting through Merced County at this hour. This activity is due to a weak  upper air disturbance which will be moving through during the course of the. The best chance of measurable rain will be from now through this evening, mainly due to the daytime heating process. On Wednesday,…

December 5, 2022 The sun has finally broken through over much of the valley this afternoon. There are still a few isolated light showers, mainly near the foothills. Those will end shortly after sunset. The center of circulation of a weak area of low pressure remains over northern California this afternoon. Models indicate one more…

December 5, 2022 The storm that dumped copious amounts of precipitation over the Sierra Nevada and substantial rain over much of the valley is now a shadow of its former self. It’s currently over northern California. There are weak disturbances moving through the low and some may be strong enough to produce isolated light showers…

  December 4, 2022 It was another very active night and the activity continues this morning as low pressure off the California/Oregon border continues to spread showers into central California from time to time. We are on the back side of this storm. Models show it finally opening up into a low pressure wave which…

December 3, 2022 The following are storm totals as of roughly 11:00 am: Fresno 1,23, Bakersfield .16, Delano .45, Belridge .68, Porterville .58, Kettleman Hills .69, Reedley 1.03, Madera .67, Merced .69, Firebaugh .42, Visalia .67, Hanford .79, Lemoore .84, and Coalinga 1.14.   The band of subtropical moisture, moved on shore resulting in widespread…

December 3, 2022 For the past several hours, an impressive field of moisture has been moving from southwest to northeast across most of the southern and central San Joaquin Valley. This moisture is flanked underneath a large low pressure system off the Oregon/northern California coast and will continue to feed precipitation into central California through…

December 2, 2022 The southern half of the valley is blanketed with a low overcast as of midday. The base of the overcast at Bakersfield, Porterville, and Visalia was 1,500 feet while at Lemoore the base is 1,900 feet. We remain in a lull between two major storms, the first of which has moved on.…