Category: Forecast

January 26, 2022 Temperatures at midday are running around 2 to 3 degrees higher than 24 hours ago. Visibilities are between 3 to 5 miles on yet another hazy, lazy January afternoon. Upper level high pressure over the eastern Pacific is slowly moving into California. This will push afternoon highs into the mid to upper…

January 26, 2022 Another tranquil morning. There are patches of fog out there but nothing too widespread. Most of the usual reporting stations are reporting visibilities of from 4 to 8 miles. Visalia is the lone exception with a visibility down to 1 mile. The very quiet pattern of January will continue through Friday. At…

January 25, 2022 Temperatures at midday are running 2 to 4 degrees cooler at most locations than 24 hours ago. This is due to a benign wave of low pressure moving through the Great Basin which has weakened pressure aloft just a tad. That will begin to reverse Wednesday as upper level high pressure which…

January 25, 2022 In the short term, only subtle changes will take place. Strong upper level high pressure remains anchored just off shore with weak ripples of upper level low pressure moving through the Great Basin. One such system is diving through Nevada and Utah at this hour and may bring a slight cooling trend…

January 24, 2022 Temperatures are once again moving into the low to mid 60s this afternoon. Dew points are roughly the same as they were 24 hours ago, ranging in the upper 30s to the mid 40s. This will allow a few pockets of frost to form again Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.   In the…

January 24, 2022 With somewhat lower dew points, fog is at a minimum this morning. In fact, most locations are reporting a visibility of 6 to 10 miles. The center of circulation of upper level high pressure is off the southern Oregon coast this morning with a ridge extending into western Canada. The other main…

January 23, 2022 The fog is less widespread this morning as dewpoints are anywhere from 2 to 10 degrees lower then 24 hours ago. Temperatures are off anywhere from 1 to 9 degrees. Most of the fog is up at Merced County northward into Stanislaus County. We have another 7 days or so of this…

January 22, 2022 Almost all of the fog and low clouds have burned off except for a patch or two in the Hanford area. Satellite imagery this afternoon is quite interesting. It shows mid and high level clouds forming quickly over the Sierra Nevada and blowing off from the northeast to the southwest across the…

January 22, 2022 Considerable amounts of fog extend from roughly the Tulare County Farm Show northward through Madera County with patchy fog elsewhere. A dry upper low is sinking southward into southeast California while upper level high pressure wraps around the top of the low, creating a strong northeasterly flow aloft. In addition, barometric pressure…

January 21, 2022 Ground fog has been rapidly expanding in coverage the past few hours. Infrared satellite imagery shows extensive fog expanding over Kern and Tulare counties with another finger of fog running roughly parallel to Highway 99 as far north as Merced County. It will e somewhat cooler today due to two factors. Fog…