Category: Forecast

April 13, 2022 Temperatures last night were all over the place. Readings ranged from the upper 20s at Lindcove to the lower 40s in some Kern County locations. A large scale low stretches from the Dakotas westward through the Pacific Northwest to another low center off the Washington coast. The flow aloft is generally out…

April 12, 2022 Steep differences in pressure continue over central California this afternoon. The altimeter reading as of 1:00pm in San Francisco was 30.24 inches of mercury while at Salt Lake City the current reading is 29.85. Couple this with a 150 knot jet stream and the result is high winds over the Sierra Nevada…

April 12, 2022 All the energy from yesterday’s weather system has moved into the interior west. We are now under a cold, northwest flow wrapping around the main area of low pressure which this morning is centered over northern Wyoming. The freezing level has dropped all the way down to 4,400 feet. Yesterday at this…

April 11, 2022 Light showers have spread down the Sierra Nevada as far south as northern Tulare County. Doppler radar is picking up on a few light showers at this hour over western Fresno County. These showers are along a cold front moving into the south valley at this hour. The parent low is centered…

April 11, 2022 A complex weather pattern is setting up over the western US. A cold low is dropping southward into Oregon and northern California. A cold front is currently moving through the northern part of the state and has spread showers as far south as Madera County. Showers will continue to spread southward ahead…

April 10, 2022 Upper level high pressure over the eastern Pacific continues to move further off shore. This allowed a low pressure system to quickly move through the western US yesterday, dropping temperatures between 10 and 15 degrees over the previous day due to a strong push of marine air down the valley. A strong…

April 9, 2022 A dry trough of low pressure is currently moving through the Great Basin. Surface pressure is falling over Nevada and Arizona and is rising along the northern California coast. The current altimeter reading at San Francisco is an even 30.00 inches of mercury while at Las Vegas, the reading has fallen to…

April 8, 2022 This is absolutely ridiculous. Fresno recorded a high of 94 yesterday, Lemoore 96, and Bakersfield 97. As I look around for information that would result in a cool down today, I find none. The marine layer is only 500 feet deep and winds at Travis AFB are variable at 5 mph, indicating…

Over the next 48 hours, we will be under a very amplified pattern. by that, I mean a sharp ridge of upper level high pressure will be over the western states with a deep low over the Great Lakes region.  The center of circulation of the high is just of the southern California coast. With…

April 6, 2022 Springtime is typically a time of radical change in the northern hemisphere. We are moving into one such change now. Temperatures will jump well into the 80s today then well into the 90s Thursday through Friday with only slight cooling Saturday. This first phase which will jet us into summer like conditions…