I'm meteorologist Carly Gomez.
It is March 21st.
We had quite the active evening
for those thunderstorms and stos
really across most of Californi.
Now earlier today we had two low
pressure systems and they did
something like a little bit of a dance,
you'd call it a Fujiwara effect.
This named after a meteorologist
in Japan who coined the term aso
low pressure systems kind of dos
little dance around each other.
This is pretty typical with
cyclones and tropical systems nw
what we're dealing with.
The two low pressure systems tht
have been doing a dance with eah
other since the morning hours of
Tuesday into the early afternood
by the evening one of those lows
finally gets absorbed by the ot,
creating a bigger low pressure system.
And this actually hit the coast,
very intense flooding areas of Santa Cruz.
They had a lot of destruction ie
area as well as a lot of floodig
for many parts of farmland movig
in toward the South Bay.
The low pressure system here rey
affected most of the valley as well at those.
Strong wind gusts as well as
lightning hail flooding and downpours.
This is quite the system now.
We did get a lot happening acros
the area including this.
Yeah that's my hand,
a peace sized hail in downtown Sacramento.
As the system pushed through we
saw a line of lightning strikesd
thunderstorms and those thunderstorms
created a solid line from areas around
Yuba City over toward Clear Lak.
All the way down and ramping don
into areas of Modesto is a prety
large sized thunderstorm line.
Now,
we also saw your videos and your photos
that you submitted.
Take a look at this one here.
We got a video from across the region,
this one desperate office
in woodland of thunderstorms
producing hail on her back pati.
You just see a lot of
that coming down there.
And then this one here.
This is Daniel in Dixon
with hail on his drive.
You can hear that pounding on te
windshield and in natomas. Erne.
He sent this one in smaller pieces of hail.
A little smaller than those pea sized
ones you saw earlier that looked
like these little pellets and yu
could see it on his outdoor rug here.
Now it also started to hail into
his pool and you can see those d
of dropping in that zone as wel.
All
right. Now as we take a look at this,
this is what we saw earlier tod,
the rotation of low making its
way onshore and from space.
This actually looked somewhat le
a hurricane hitting the coastli.
And those winds,
those intense winds actually did reach
gusts that would have been hurre
strength areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
We saw about 82 mile per hour g,
75 mile per hour gusts in Mount Diablo
as you take a look here at that rotation,
kind of circular motion there.
We created with that blow
a line of thunderstorms.
You can see it right there that
pushes all the way up and over.
And those isolated thunderstorm lines there
from Modesto all the way up past Sacramento,
Citrus Heights,
Roseville into Yuba City,
and then eventually making its way up
toward Clear Lake and rounding itself out.
They finally began to dissipate
as we lost more of that heat and
moisture by the evening hours.
So a lot of that instability as
we started seeing the sunset kid
of mellowed things.
Out when it came to the system.
But as we continue to see those
thunderstorms this evening,
we saw a lot of lightning strikes and
damage as well as those power outages
across not just the Sacramento ,
but many areas that dealt
with those strong wind gusts.
Alright,
let's take a look at what we
also saw at 4:30.
We saw some early detection
rotation passing areas of woodld
and we do know that the woodland
area saw some down power lines,
including a lot of those wind
gusts affecting a gas station
nearby the roof of that.
Gas Station looked a little bit
tattered and we saw a lot of hal
pushing from Davis to woodland
all the way up and over toward
Williams Clear Lake in Yuba City
along 80 earlier in the evening.
We did see the Fairfield Vacaville area
get hit pretty hard with hail as well,
and then some small early
detection rotations.
That doesn't mean we
necessarily saw a tornado,
but what that could mean thoughs
there was enough motion and enough wind
movement in the sky that we could have seen,
and we did get reports of poten.
With funnel clouds and when
we see some funnel clouds,
even the rotation of them,
we get these early detections.
Now they are in a tornado until
they officially hit the ground.
We do not have any current repos
of any tornadic activity as of
the taping of this video for yo.
Let's take a look at the peak wd
gusts today and I want you to
know that these peak wind gusts
were just the major stations.
That doesn't include some of the
other outliers that reach 50 to
60 mile per hour wind gusts,
38 in Sacramento, almost 50 in Stockton,
39 Modesto and.
As previously mentioned,
we did see areas like Mount Diao
with 75 mile per hour wind gust,
the Santa Cruz Mountains at 82 ,
and then even some of the inland areas here.
I know China Gulch, they saw soe
of those wind gusts over 50 mph,
reaching 60 for some places in between.
So a lot of that purple zone the
that doesn't come up with the number.
We did often see those numbers anywhere
from 50 to 60 mph as we take a look at
what we can expect moving into Wednesday,
in the midweek and toward the weekend.
What we're seeing is we're finally looking
at the system kind of just dying out a bit.
5:00 AM we still have a few spotted showers
lingering in the area and finally getting
closer toward mid morning lunch,
the clouds begin to break up a .
We still have a few more scattered snow
showers for the high elevation spots,
but most of the heavier snow is going
to be gone at this point in tim.
By Wednesday afternoon,
finally we get some clearing
moving into Thursday.
Partly sunny skies, maybe a few more,
maybe lingering.
Snow showers up high Thursday early morning,
but otherwise we are pretty
dry for the valley areas.
And then moving toward the weekd
we're going to get more sunshin.
I know it's spring,
so Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
You're seeing these three days
in the weekend mostly sunny,
although Sunday if you are headed toward
the Sierra we could begin seeinr
first look at some potential for snow
showers finally moving toward next week.
You're actually seeing more rain back
in the forecast Tuesday and Wednesday,
but Tuesday and Wednesday that
could be a very similar.
Outcome to what we dealt with t.