February 3, 2024 Summary: If high resolution modeling is accurate for this upcoming event, this storm will rival the top 5 storm events over California for the last 100 years. By midday Sunday, a 985 millibar surface low will be centered just to the west/northwest of the Golden Gate. Not only is the central pressure…
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February 2, 2024 afternoon report
Summary: There is still a chance of scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms through this evening with a slight chance through Saturday, but most locations will remain dry. Model information for Sunday shows a dynamite weather day. It’s very rare to see pressure as low as modeling suggests with a 965 millibar low just west of…
February 2, 2024 report
ummary: For those of you who have wind sensitive operations, read the wind summary below as a high wind event appears likely later Saturday night into Monday morning. Yesterday was another active weather day in central California. Isolated thunderstorms broke out yesterday afternoon and evening which really upped storm totals at some locations. Here are…
February 1, 2024 afternoon report
January 31, 2024 Summary: The heaviest rainfall over the past 12 hours or so has been along and just inland from the southern California coast. Santa Barbara has picked up 3.67, Casitas tallied 5.37, Long Beach 2.43, and Santa Monica 2.73. On the valley floor, Bakersfield has measured .39, Delano .18, Visalia .34, Hanford .24,…
February 1, 2024 report
February 1, 2024 Summary: Rainfall amounts as of 4:30 am were heaviest in Madera and Merced Counties. Merced has received .53 and Madera .27. Lemoore and Fresno each received .18, Hanford .16 and Visalia .17. Most other locations recorded a tenth of an inch or less. the colder sector of the storm will arrive later…
January 31, 2024 afternoon report
January 31, 2024 Summary: The current barometric pressure at Las Vegas is 30.01 inches of mercury while at San Francisco the current reading is 29.74. The reason I’m starting the summary with differences in pressure is to illustrate wind velocity over the next 12 to 18 hours. Generally speaking, the larger the pressure difference from…
January 31, 2024 report
January 31, 2024 Summary: The center of circulation of a powerful low is roughly 400 miles to the west of the Washington coast. Satellite imagery does an excellent job of depicting the dynamics of this event. A clear cut comma configuration with a huge swath of moisture stretches from the Hawaiian Islands to just off…
January 30, 2024 afternoon report
January 30, 2024 We’re currently in a transition period from a dry ridge of upper level high pressure to a powerful Pacific storm located several hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. A powerful Jetstream is moving from west to east across the eastern Pacific Ocean to just off the California coast. Embedded…
January 30, 2024 report
January 30, 2024 Summary: Strong upper level high pressure is centered over northern Arizona this morning. even though the high has shifted a bit further east, the proximity of the high combined with a southerly flow aloft will drive temperatures to near record values again this afternoon, although increasing amounts of cloud cover will probably…
January 29, 2024 afternoon report
January 29, 2024 Earlier this morning, rain was falling on less than one-percent of the lower 48. It’s rare to see little to no rain falling over the lower 48 coast to coast. Strong upper level high pressure over Nevada will begin to shift eastward over the next 36 hours. Satellite imagery this afternoon depicts…