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February 8, 2024 Summary:  The lower Sacramento Valley to the southern San Joaquin Valley is largely overcast. most locations reported the cloud deck based at 4,000 to 5,000 feet. These clouds are due to a northwest flow pushing down the valley behind yesterday’s storm which is now over northern Arizona. Offshore, a ridge of upper…

February 8, 2024 Summary: The upper low and associated cold front came through more energized than expected last night. rainfall amounts ranged between a half and one inch. That low is now moving into northwest Arizona and is being followed by a cold northerly flow. The freezing level taken overnight above Oakland was just 3,800…

February 7, 2024 Summary: Showers over the past few hours have been mainly along the Sierra Nevada foothills and along the extreme eastern San Joaquin Valley. Finally, the heavy precipitation over southern California has ended and has broken up into mainly light showers. Today and tonight will be the last active period we’ll see for…

February 6, 2024 Summary:  After a fairly quiet morning, daytime heating is beginning to spawn showers over the Coast Range with light showers over Madera and Merced Counties. These showers will become more numerous later this afternoon and evening with even the possibility of isolated thunderstorms. Low pressure aloft extends from the Pacific Northwest south/southwestward…

February 6, 2024 Summary: Incredible amounts of rain continue to fall over southern California. Depending on location, the Los Angeles Basin has recorded anywhere from three and a half to eight and a half inches. Doppler radar is still showing an atmospheric river of very moist air moving inland from Los Angeles County to northern…

February 5, 2024 Summary:  Unfortunately, the atmospheric river of air is not moving and is channeling heavy amounts of rain right through Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Sadly, the flooding taking place there now will be aggravated further by constant mid to heavy rain through midday Tuesday when the flow begins to weaken and shift…

February 5, 2024 Summary: Satellite imagery this hour continues to show a very complex, deep low stretching from northern California southwestward out to sea. The center of the surface low has drifted northward and is centered just west of Eureka this morning. Even though the atmospheric river has detached from the main low, it is…

February 4, 2024 Summary:  If it was a football game, today would be  the Super Bowl in Kern County. This storm is definitely living up to its potential as far as wind is concerned. Locally hurricane force winds have buffeted part of the county. The following are peak wind gusts recorded today, most from Kern…

February 4, 2024 Summary: Short term forecast models indicate a surface low at 984 millibars to be centered just west of the Golden Gate by early to mid afternoon. Already this morning, the barometer at San Francisco has dropped to 29.56 inches of mercury while at Las Vegas the reading 30.06. That is a surface…

Summary:  The leading edge of the next atmospheric river of air is roughly 200 miles west of the southern and central California coast. We are literally in the bulls-eye of this event as a pineapple connection of tropical air feeds a rapidly intensifying low pressure system currently located about 450 miles to our west. Doppler…