Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Rain Wrapping Up...More to Come

We had quite a bit of rain in the overnight hours into this morning.  This afternoon we had a boundary set up right over Redding with a strong moisture feed.  These downpours were associated with training cells from the southwest.  This boundary is beginning to shift southeast of  Redding so I expect limited rainfall totals for the rest of the evening.

Tomorrow, isolated showers in the early morning hours but I expect the afternoon to be dry.
We will dry out for Friday with temperatures around 60 before we see the arrival of our next system Saturday.  I fully expect the system on Saturday to drop heavy QPF for the entire NorthState.




Now this is the18z GFS, valid at 18z on Saturday.  You will notice the surface low off to our west northwest.  To our south west you will also notice the surface high.  The clockwise motion of the high pressure and the counterclockwise motion of the surface low will funnel moisture into Northern California.  The cross hairs look to be a little south of the NorthState but I still expect heavy qpf amounts.


6 hour precip totals for Saturday afternoon based off the 18z  GFS.

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