Hi, I'm meteorologist currently Gomez.
Bring you the latest on that passing storm system for Saturday,
January 6.
Now, we did get quite the snow totals in the Sierra,
not quite as much rain in the valley,
but we definitely got some hail as well in Plymouth.
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app. Let's check out how much snow we may have seen out there.
According to this snow total model
looks like we may have gotten close to about 15 inches at dawn or 11 inches.
Immigrant gap two inches for
Hill Nevada City with four inches in Pollock Pines, a
lot of areas on this model showing upwards of about 14 to 15 inches.
Now,
we know a couple of ski resorts showing in about 11 inches and
the European model is kind of bringing those numbers closer to 11 inches.
So we're gonna have to wait and see until Sunday and get some of
those snow totals reported to us to actually figure out how much we got.
And this is important because right now, the central sea snow lab is reporting
just about 38% of average snowfall for this time of year.
They would need 18 more inches from just this storm system
to push them up toward that 50% mark of average.
It's not 100% that just getting halfway to the point we need to be at.
So we're still not there.
We still hope to have a lot more snowfall at least through January
to help us out in this water year. Let's talk about open snows chart here from
October to January in the central Sierra snowfall,
right around 68 almost 6900 ft in elevation.
With this map is showing out, you see a lot of paragraphs here,
but this is where we're at this little red mark.
This is an even really halfway there where we need
is that red line by the end of January,
we're about maybe a third of the way there.
So we'd hope to get to this point in time by
the end of January to even reach the halfway marker.
And again, this is just October to January marker.
Now, this time last year from October to January,
that
much snow, we received so much snow. I mean, we exceeded our mark by double.
We were at 200 percentile as we were pushing January and February of last water year.
So we have a lot to make up, make up work to do, I should say.
But we're hoping some more storm systems can help out, unfortunately,
would have to be one after the other.
I mean,
continuing week after week to even get us close now to where
we should be for this time of year at that red marker.
So we're hoping we do have two more systems coming through for the following week,
at least moving from Tuesday night to Wednesday
and then again from Friday night to Saturday.
And that is looking to bring us quite a bit of snowfall,
cold temperatures moving in with these low pressure
systems coming in from the Gulf of Alaska.
So we know that cold air coming in from the Arctic holding on to that snow pack for us.
But when it came to rain and pushing that in from the valley spots,
we got the lower end of the scale.
We expected 1/10 to about a quarter inch of rain.
We got that 10th of an inch mark here, Marysville, Sacramento in Fairfield,
a little more than that for stock to Modesto.
The foothills got pretty much what they expected about a third of an inch,
anywhere from a third to a half is what they expected and that's what they got.
So we're pretty much on par when it came to the rain totals.
But now that we look at the winter storm exiting most of that,
pushing out of our area tonight as of 8 p.m.
And then the winter storm warning only in effect until
10 p.m. they did lift the winter weather advisories.
There's really no snow left up there
to really uh warn people about.
But we are dealing with cold and icy conditions overnight
as cold temperatures continue to push across the region.
Now, as that storm system exits the region
again,
the cold overnight lows will appear and what's going to happen with
that is we're already starting to see areas of developing fog.
We'll see some thick fog into the foothills spots all the way down to the valley.
It's mostly the valley to the east and up into the foothills
that will see the thickest fog west side of the valley.
We're still seeing some winds picking up which will
help clear some of that fog from forming.
But we may see some patchy areas of fog,
gusty winds that we saw today will also continue
Sunday as well as moving toward Monday into Tuesday.
We're looking at out there is a trough
that's been pushing down into southern California.
Now,
you see most of the entire Western United
States dealing with either cold winter weather,
wind events, freezing temperatures overnight.
And this is pushing all the way past areas into New Mexico, Colorado and Utah as well.
And you're dealing with areas right above Dallas as they're looking at a lot of
cold weather there freeze warnings in effect
is that high pressure builds behind this.
We have a little bit of clearing.
This will bring us some sunshine,
cold temperatures though for a couple of days before we see
something right behind it pulling in for us on Wednesday.
Let's talk some of this visibility in miles as we
start getting into the early morning hours of your Sunday.
We see anywhere from 5 to 6 miles in visibility.
Much thicker spots could be forming as well and just small pockets of farmland.
So please be careful out there again,
the east side of the valley and into the foothills as we get to the mid morning hours,
most of that begins to clear out by lunch time and we'll see
some sunshine for your Sunday but definitely
cold temperatures and winds picking up.
Now, moving from Sunday to Monday again, mostly clear skies overnight,
that's gonna bring us freezing if not below freezing
temperatures for many valley spots early Monday morning.
If you're getting ready to go to work school Monday morning,
definitely dress warm.
That's where we're seeing some of the coldest overnight
lows of the week ahead in really the next 10
days as we'll be seeing 32 degrees and even below
that for a lot of valley spots Monday morning,
prepare for that, but also get your car prepared.
Give your self time to, uh, prepare the vehicle early before you're leaving.
Defrost the car kind of get your windshield wet
windshield together and, uh, get prepared to leave out the door.
We are looking at Monday night, 9 p.m. just off the coastline,
clouds begin to move in and as we take a look, we're going to expect that
to start ushering in us clouds for Tuesday into Wednesday.
But for Sunday afternoon, we're first starting to deal with those winds continuing
about 15 to 25 mile per hour wind gusts in the valley then moving into Monday morning,
8:30 a.m. still a little breezy out there in some spots.
But otherwise we mostly see the winds picking right back
up on Tuesday as you get to lunch time.
We are expecting
another system to begin arriving late Tuesday night and into Wednesday again,
mostly affecting areas of the sea.
Are you saying Tuesday night, 730 again,
mostly affecting the Sierra with snowfall and then
you're seeing some areas that might see some
lighter rain there for the foothill spots but
doesn't really affect too much of the valley,
just a slight chance for rain
in the valley.
Then the next system really,
this is one that may affect the valley is Wednesday night.
We see the snow coming in first in the rain, just push
on shore.
There's a little gap there for the valley,
but then it starts moving in as we get to Wednesday night into Thursday morning,
cloudy skies.
The next system expected, expected once again, very similar to what we saw today.
But for next weekend,
we're dealing with our storm system on Saturday with snow and rain pushing through.
This one almost looks identical to what we just dealt with today.
So just remember that you're kind of dealing with the same scenario,
a little bit of Groundhog's Day for you, but Groundhogs week
and then we're finally looking into your Tuesday where we may see January 16th
a little more rain on the horizon just to the north coming in.
So we do need these storm systems to continue funneling in at
least as we move from January to February to
continue building on that snow pack for ourselves.
Looking into the foothills, upper forties to mid forties,
but check out the overnight lows, mid to low twenties with 19 degrees in Twain Harp,
if you are headed toward the Bay Area,
mid to upper fifties for the daytime highs,
but even the overnight lows are getting cold areas
like Vallejo at 35 degrees napa 3337 in Antioch,
even cold for San Francisco overnight at 42 degrees with 38 in Tracy.
Now for the valley will be dropping off into the mid to low thirties.
Freezing point for golf. It's near that in Elk Grove
and low die at 32. So again, freezing temperatures overnight
and into early Monday morning as well.
So prepare for those cold temperatures really the next
week overnight as we continue to sit in those thirties
and even the daytime highs don't really get that
warm will continue to be in the low fifties,
if not upper forties.