Significant Storms Headed to Northern California

16 12 2007
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You can click the image to see an animation that shows the current data at the time you are viewing, which depending on when you click, may not match the image above.

Looks like after the midwest and east coast got heavy winter weather, now it’s our turn here in California. These are two cold wet storms headed in. See the discussion for the four areas of Northern California Sac Valley, Siskiyou, and Sierra below:

URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA

638 AM PST SUN DEC 16 2007

..STORMY WEATHER ON TAP FOR NORTHERN INTERIOR CALIFORNIA…

.TWO PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA OVER

THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THE FIRST STORM WILL SPREAD SNOW INTO THE

INTERIOR AND SHASTA COUNTY MOUNTAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON…AND

INTO THE BURNEY BASIN BY THIS EVENING. SNOW MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES ABOVE

2500 IN THESE AREAS TONIGHT. LOCAL WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND GUSTS TO

50 MPH OVER THE HIGHEST PASSES WILL CREATE LOCALLY REDUCED

VISIBILITY IN BLOWING SNOW TONIGHT AND MONDAY MORNING. 3 TO 6

INCHES OF SNOW ARE LIKELY BY MONDAY MORNING BEFORE SNOW TAPERS OFF

TO SCATTERED SHOWERS LATE MONDAY MORNING. 

THE SECOND…AND STRONGER STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION MONDAY

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Spotting Weather Stations in SFO

16 12 2007
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San Francisco’s official weather stations, new and old locations are in this photo – can you find them?

Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of meeting up with Steve McIntyre, Steve Mosher, and “jeez” (who lives in San Francisco, and currently wishes to remain anonymous) from Climate Audit. We had dinner at Umbria in downtown SFO and talked shop about “everything under the sun”. Mostly we talked about things we’ve learned over the past year and the reactions to them. It was a great evening that I’ll always remember, and “jeez” was a superb host. My thanks to him not only for dinner but for some special help I’ll discuss later. Steve Mosher is a lot more soft spoken than his online persona would indicate, but very sharp witted, and Steve McIntyre provides great conversation and good humor. Read the rest of this entry »