May 19.2014
California Could Get Some Sierra Snow ,Thundershowers This Week
NWS says rain could visit some parts of California most of this week with the Central Sierra getting some snow Tuesday and Wednesday.The unsettled weather could move slowly down the state through the week. Regarding the system SLO forecaster John Lindsey says today in his blog”An upper-level low pressure (551-dm) system will drop out of the Pacific Northwest and slide across Central California on Tuesday into Wednesday. This system will give below-average temperatures band plenty of marine low clouds, fog and drizzle during the night and morning hours. The system will also produce cumulus cloudsbalong with a chance rain showers and afternoon thunderstorms over far eastern San Luis Obispo County. However, This system will give showers and afternoon thundershowers over much of the Sierra Nevada.”
El Nino Could Bring Late Summer Rains To So Cal
A NOAA forecast map produced May 15 predicts the probability of wet weather across the southwest including southern California late this summer due to a strengthening El Nino. The probability map shown is for the months of August,September and October. NOAA cautions that this far out it is impossible to offer specifics but the El Nino in the So Pacific typically drives this pattern that could also bring plenty of moisture this summer to Arizona.