Chris Fontana, "The Old Forecaster" 5/21/2013
This morning's satellite picture (below) shows the cold low pressure area dropping southward along the Canadian Coast. This system will move inland over the Pacific Northwest tonight and early Wednesday and will remain there Thursday. The low has cold air...for this time or year...associated with it, but not a lot of moisture.
Today there will be increasing clouds across the north coast, Trinity, Siskiyou, northern Shasta and Modoc counties with isolated showers over the northwest corner of the state. The rest of Northern California will be mostly sunny with a few clouds in the afternoon. Temperatures today will drop 6 to 12 degrees. Gusty southwest to northwest winds will occur with gusts 35 to 45 mph over eastern Siskiyou and Modoc counties.
| NWS Forecast for: Quincy CA Issued by: National Weather Service Sacramento, CA Last Update: 2:20 am PDT May 21, 2013 | |
Today: Mostly sunny, with a high near 70. South southwest wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.
Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Southwest wind 9 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 59. Calm wind becoming northwest 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
April in the Lake Almanor Basin continued the recent weather trend of lower than average precipitation and higher than average temperatures. Only 1 inch of snowfall was recorded on the West Shore during April, bringing the season total to 138 inches or 109 percent of the long-term average for this point in the customary water year (July through June).
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