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Welcome to California Weather!

Welcome to the California Weather Group! Up here in the Sierra Nevada where my station is located, we are known for our dramatic and very changeable weather, as well as our great scenery.

Although I started this group, I am by no means going to act as the moderator. I only started it because I wasn't able to find any existing groups that focused on the Sierra Nevada region, and I know that we have a lot of WeatherBug users who live here or travel up to our mountain communities on their vacations.

Now that Weather Bug is focusing on state-wide weather groups instead of regional groups, I would also like to invite all the station operators in California to share their station histories and weather stories with the rest of us!

We have also included a feed from our own Bass Lake weather cam which is updated every 2 minutes during daylight hours. Weather data from the station is overlayed on the camera image 24 hours a day and is also updated every 2 minutes.

Cheers!

Rick.

Station Operator

Station D2149 - Bass Lake Ca.

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The Sierra Snow Drought of 2011/2012

Started by Station Operator D2149. Last reply by Kevin Shaw Apr 5, 2012. 1 Reply 0 Favorites

For those of us living up here in the Sierra Nevada, the biggest weather news of the season has been the notable LACK of weather!December 2011 saw ZERO precipitation for the entire month for the…Continue

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Comment by Nathan Parker on April 22, 2012 at 7:14pm: Anyone hear about this? Strange!

http://www.windstream.net/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9UA5NJ80%40news....

Comment by Nathan Parker on April 19, 2012 at 1:15pm: Station Operator: Zach's CA Weather page is online. Like it and post on there you want to be admin and he'll made you admin! https://www.facebook.com/pages/California-Weather/182667435182900

Comment by Nathan Parker on April 5, 2012 at 12:47pm: Cupertino residents can now see a Backyard Station from a particular fruit orchard. :-)

http://weather.weatherbug.com/CA/Cupertino-weather.html?zcode=z6286...

Comment by Kevin Shaw on March 11, 2012 at 4:19pm: Central Sierra Snow Lab near Donner Pass CA:

http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/weather/cssl.html

Video of the lab and instruments, commentary by the Lab explaining everything that you see in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0N-XFN_Gkc

Comment by Station Operator D2149 on March 6, 2012 at 7:25pm: We managed to pick up 0.17 inches of precipitation earlier today as the low pressure trough quickly moved through our area. The bulk of this precipitation arrived in the form of snow flurries and ice pellets with temps hovering in the mid to upper 30s.

The contrast in weather between yesterday and today has been striking with an over 30 degree drop in daytime highs in the last 24 hours.

Comment by Harold Lemon on March 5, 2012 at 4:29pm: Cold and windy on Tuesday with temps only in the 50's along with a 40% chance of rain. Gale warnings have been posted along the coast. Should be fun.

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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

905 AM PST MON MAR 5 2012

...BLUSTERY CONDITIONS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

.A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE REGION ON TUESDAY MORNING. AFTER COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE...STRONG NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP. BY EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON WIND SPEEDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED ALONG WITH GUSTS OF 40 TO 55 MPH. STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE NEAR THE COAST AND IN THE HILLS. WINDS WILL CONTINUE STRONG AND GUSTY THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING AND THEN DIMINISH BY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT.

CAZ006-505-508-509-530-060400- /O.CON.KMTR.WI.Y.0004.120306T2000Z-120307T0800Z/ SAN FRANCISCO- COASTAL NORTH BAY...INCLUDING POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE- SAN FRANCISCO BAY SHORELINE-SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA COAST- SOUTHERN MONTEREY BAY AND BIG SUR COAST-

905 AM PST MON MAR 5 2012

...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO MIDNIGHT PST TUESDAY NIGHT...

* TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE BY EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND REACH THEIR PEAK INTENSITY LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY TUESDAY EVENING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY NIGHT.

* WINDS: NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED ALONG WITH GUSTS OF BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH.

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Comment by Station Operator D2149 on February 28, 2012 at 9:06pm: Hi Harold!

Yep! We are tracking the approaching sytem and are hopeful that we will get some respectable precipitation from this one. The system on Monday dove to our south and we only picked up 0.10 worth of liquid equivilant from about an inch of snow.

The NWS is predicting a little more from this next one and BOY do we ever need it! This is the driest February on record here with only 1.51 inches for the entire month even after the last system came through. Our average for Feb. is 9.50 inches. Our seasonal total here at the station is only 10.68 inches with our normal seasonal total by this date well over 50 inches.

While this next storm is certainly welcome, it is hardly the kind of winter blockbuster we normally would be seeing this time of year.

Thanks for the info and hope to hear back from you soon! :o)

Cheers.

[]Rick.

Comment by Harold Lemon on February 28, 2012 at 5:05pm: Looks like the Sierra is finally going to gwet some serious snow.

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URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HANFORD CA

124 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2012

CAZ096-290600- /O.NEW.KHNX.WS.W.0003.120229T1000Z-120301T1000Z/ SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON- 124 PM PST TUE FEB 28 2012

...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM WEDNESDAY TO 2 AM PST THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HANFORD HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM WEDNESDAY TO 2 AM PST THURSDAY FOR THE SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA FROM YOSEMITE TO KINGS CANYON.

* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: 1 TO 2 FEET.

* TIMING: 2 AM WEDNESDAY TO 2 AM THURSDAY PST.

* LOCATIONS INCLUDE: SHAVER LAKE...YOSEMITE VALLEY

* WINDS: SOUTH WINDS 25 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH...SOUTHWEST 50 TO 70 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 110 MPH OVER HIGHER ELEVATIONS.

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Source: http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=wi... storm warning