Category: Forecast

August 12, 2021 A very hot air mass remains over the western US.  Sandberg at an elevation of 4,100 feet was reporting 77 degrees as of 6:00am.  Way up at Bear Peak in Tulare County at 8,200 feet the reading was 67 degrees.  Sixty seven degrees is generally the low at the valley floor at…

August 11, 2021 Explosive thunderstorms erupted over the southern California mountains yesterday.  A few locations reported as much as 2.5 inches of rain.  The leading edge of the monsoonal flow has now reached Kern County and is moving northwestward up the Sierra Nevada.  More and more mid and high level clouds will spread over the…

August 10, 2021 Occasionally, in the mid to late summer months, a massive high will develop with two or three different centers.  That is the case this morning where strong upper level high pressure stretches all the way from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the southeast to off the California coast.  Another strong…

August 9, 2021 The visible   satellite image this morning is quite  telling.   A large mass  of smoke over northern California is literally choking out Nevada and Utah.  A shallow layer of smoke  is clearly depicted cover the entire San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys.  The balloon sounding over Oakland this morning indicated a weak south/southwest flow…

There  will  be no  report  tomorrow   as John  will be  undergoing  his third  round  of   chemo.   Following  this round will  be  a series  of tests  to  determine  how well the   tumor   is responding.     We’ll  keep  you posted!       July  27, 2021 Northern California is experiencing what we had yesterday.     Heavy   cloud   cover has  …

July 24, 2021 A considerable amount of monsoonal moisture is working through just north of a weak upper air disturbance located just north of San Diego.  Doppler radar indicates a considerable amount of shower activity is over and off the southern  California coast.  Models project the disturbance will move northwestward through central California.  There is…

July 25, 2021 A massive area of upper level high pressure stretches from California on the west to roughly the Mississippi River on the east.  Embedded within this high is a weak upper low which is currently straddling the Mexico/California border.  The low has picked up a great deal of monsoonal moisture and will soon…

July 24, 2021 Numerous showers and thunderstorms continue to pound parts of Arizona this morning.  some of these showers have made it across the Colorado River near Needles.  As the upper high builds westward and  a weak upper air disturbance moves from east to west through southern Arizona, scattered showers and thunderstorms will spread northward…

July 23, 2021 Through Saturday, the winds aloft over the valley will remain out of the south/southwest.  To illustrate what’s going on in the upper atmosphere, the balloon sounding above San Diego shows a southeast flow while over Oakland, the winds aloft are out of the southwest.  This is due to the clockwise rotation around…

July 22, 2021 It seems that a lot of prayers are being answered over the Desert Southwest and the Rocky Mountain region.  A very active monsoon season continues as virtually 80% of the state of Arizona is under a flash flood watch.  Hopefully for water storage, this will be the summer we have been waiting…