Periods of showers continue to run from west to east across the valley this afternoon. Evening a few lightning strikes have been observed in Kings and Tulare Counties as of 1:00pm. Snow is falling down into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear some reports of…
Category: Forecast
2/22/22 Report
The center of circulation of an unusually cold low is near reno, Nevada this morning. It’s part of a huge arctic trough of low pressure which extends from northeast Canada southeastward to off the northern and central California coast. The freezing level over Oakland has plummeted to 3,300 feet but go up to Medford, Oregon…
February 21, 2022/afternoon report
February 21, 2022 Even though skies are partly cloudy this afternoon, rain is on the way. The first phase of this major weather change moved mainly into Nevada early this morning. California, so far, has been on the far western boundary of a very cold low pressure system now digging into northern California. Showers have…
February 21, 2022/report
February 21, 2022 Phase 1 of a major weather change, which will drag us right back into winter mode, is well underway. An elongated unusually cold trough of low pressure stretches from northwest Canada with the trough moving due south into extreme western Nevada. Snow showers will spread down the Sierra Nevada today with snow…
February 20, 2022/afternoon report
February 20, 2022 I’m still studying with great interest and a bit of trepidation a very cold weather pattern which is already beginning to shape up. Currently, upper level high pressure is building into the Gulf of Alaska while a trough of low pressure stretches itself from northwest Canada to the Pacific Northwest. The first…
February 20, 2022/report
February 20, 2022 Rapid changes in the pattern are taking place along the western north American continent. An elongated very cold trough of low pressure is digging southward, partially over land and partially over the eastern Pacific Ocean. The southern limit of this trough is now moving into Oregon along with its associated cold front.…
February 19, 2022/afternoon report
February 19, 2022 We have roughly another 24 hours of pleasant spring like weather before winter comes roaring back. Upper level high pressure is currently overhead but will completely cave in Saturday night and Sunday. A very cold winter storm will enter the picture in two phases. The main dynamics of phase one will move…
February 19, 2022/report
February 19, 2022 High pressure covers the eastern Pacific and most of the western US. There is a small upper low located roughly 400 miles west of Santa Maria which continues to move southward parallel to the coast. In the meantime, a very cold low is developing over the extreme northeast Pacific and northwest Canada.…
February 18, 2022/afternoon report
Great news! John does not require surgery and to all intents and purposes is cancer free. Thank you for your prayers and support over the past year. We know those prayers made a difference. February 18, 2022 Temperatures at midday are in the mid to upper 60s. Lemoore and Merced were at 69…
February 18, 2022/report
Great news! John does not require surgery and to all intents and purposes is cancer free. Thank you for your prayers and support over the past year. We know those prayers made a difference. February 18, 2022 The bone dry conditions out there contribute to the wide differences in temperatures between daytime highs and…