Tracking our rain and snow.
Making a return as we head into
our Monday evening early Tuesday.
What's new and what's changed?
Well, we've got a wet morning commute
still in store for us with our dry streak.
Very likely coming to an end,
but a changing snow level as we
hold on to some of that warmth a
little bit longer in the forecast.
So for the morning commute
between 7:00 and 8:00 AM,
showers falling throughout the
valley particularly hard on
the east side of the valley,
safer Roseville, Lincoln,
Loomis along I-80 and then along Hwy 50.
El Dorado hills up through Cameron Park,
even into Folsom as well.
Slick spots especially.
Heading into that 7:00 to 8:00 AM
hour and then for the evening commute,
we're generally going to see clearing
skies just a slight chance of a
thunderstorm popping up there for
the central Sacramento Valley.
Our dry streak right now.
65 days and counting.
No measurable rain for downtown
Sacramento since January 7th,
and it's very likely we will
make it to midnight.
Adding to that total at 66 days.
And then we're going to cap it.
You guys look at how the
showers start to move our way.
So here's our midnight forecast.
Right along I-5 traveling northbound
here through the central.
Sacramento Valley and then it
starts to stretch its way southward
here for the four o'clock hour.
We're getting the heaviest rain
here through the downtown area,
even off to the east,
there through Elk Grove and then
starting to stretch in through
the northern San Joaquin Valley.
But between again 7:00 and 8:00 AM.
You can see how some of the
stronger bands are starting to move
to the east side of the valley,
indicated in the yellow.
Some of those pockets of orange in there,
right through the foothills
through Placerville and Pollock,
Pines,
snow level at about 6500 feet
to start the day,
and then is that warmer air works.
In we're going to have that
snow line at about 7500 feet,
meaning our snow level will
be above the passes.
We're still going to find some
tricky travel through the Sierra,
but lots of changing conditions as well.
The cold air still locked in though,
for the central Syria,
and you'll see those snow showers
falling along 88 and 89 as well
as 395 periodically still have
a few snow showers in there
locked into the 8050 corridor,
but it's not going to be the
heaviest stuff that will fall in the
morning and then right around 5:00
o'clock it looks like right now,
right along willows.
They're along I-5.
We have a slight chance of seeing
some thunderstorms.
That's not to say that we won't see more
through the central Sacramento Valley,
but that's what things are
looking like right now.
Everything pretty much quieting down
except a few isolated very light showers
around Chico at 11:00 o'clock hour.
Total rainfall still coming
in at about 1/10 of an
inch for Sacramento as well as Modesto,
but some of us are really struggling
to even have that accumulating rain,
but it looks likely downtown.
Sacramento will indeed break that dry streak.
Placerville, Pollock Pines,
Auburn with about 1/2 an inch of rain.
Almost an inch for Grass Valley,
most of that falling before noon.
Now for the Sierra again,
it's going to be a lot
of changing conditions,
but we'll manage to squeak out about
one to three inches of snow with
our snow line at about 7500 feet.
As we dig deeper into the afternoon,
this is good for the pollen forecast
going to bring down those numbers
into more of a moderate range.
We're right back up Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday with trees and
grasses being the main components
for that pollen forecast.
OK, so this is just.
Storm System number one.
We're going to continue to watch
another developing weather system
that comes our way on Saturday,
so you can see what happens here.
This one,
mainly affecting Northern California
for our Tuesday outlook and all the
way through the Pacific Northwest.
Not really doing too much here for Socal,
but we will get another weather
system coming in on Saturday.
I really like this one because
it goes all the way deep into
Southern California and it's colder,
meaning we get more snow,
which provides a third of our water supply.
For California,
water needs nice to have that
this deep in the season and that
will be the case all the way
through the Cascades all the way
down into Southern California.
Much colder system.
Like I said,
that's why I like this one so much
that lingers into Sunday as well.
Then we're right back to the drier forecast,
which unfortunately leads us
to that long range outlook,
which is drier than normal conditions.