May Grey

Today is the 1st day that sun peaks above 40 degrees here, spring is coming! 
 

21 minutes ago, roadtonowhere08 said:

Brief heavy rain a bit ago, but good lord, nothing like Thunger98's last animation.  Wow!

This is what it looked like when the squall line hjt my area. It was super heavy rain and windy. Wild!
 

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Severe thunderstorms for LA.

I had a severe thunderstorm warning without any lightning. lol, most California storm ever.

Got hit by a super heavy rain squall. Man that was epic!

Squall line is coming

These rain showers keep forming right over the SM Valley! Thank you NW flow!

Pouring very hard now as a tiny shower has moved in!

3 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Just got another heavy rain shower. 

The storms this year are not treating my area well, unlike last year. Cold GOA storms are the best for my area.

Rain total for Orcutt since Saturday is 1.71". The intense SE winds on Sunday created a strong rain shadow here. Monthly total so far is 2.75", the avg is 2.72". Finally passed the avg for the month of Feb!

On 1/30/2024 at 7:13 PM, AquariusRadar said:

All the weather reporters continue to label recent storms "atmospheric rivers" or notably the "pineapple express. The strong storms are just that- normal winter west coast storms. This upcoming blast has no streamer of moisture coming from the tropics- Hawaii or otherwise. These storms- while strong- don't deliver as much moisture as atmospheric rivers. 

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Very dense ground fog right now. Which is very unusual in the cold unstable part of the storm.

Finally seeing some good downpours this evening

Looks like the Marine Layer has took a winter holiday over the Great Lakes. @Anti Marine Layer

Wind gusts peaked at 60 mph at Santa Maria Airport! 

Rain total for Orcutt is now at 1.22" since yesterday. Very good.

NWS dropped my forecasted wind gusts from 69 mph to 59 mph! Thank god, I feel a bit better now.

1 hour ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Getting cloudy now.

FFWJHGEDNFSEYHHGH!!!!!!

Huge difference between the wind forecasts from NWS and WU. I hope those 70 mph gusts don't verify!

Orcutt finished with 1.27" for storm #1. Not too bad

Raining again thanks to this little fella.

The sun angle is noticeably higher now. Next Thursday the sun will be above 40 degrees angle here.

0.95" in Orcutt, kind of underperformed. But the next storm, I could see a lot more.

WU rain forecast has went up by a lot!

South winds have just started

11 hours ago, AquariusRadar said:

All the weather reporters continue to label recent storms "atmospheric rivers" or notably the "pineapple express. The strong storms are just that- normal winter west coast storms. This upcoming blast has no streamer of moisture coming from the tropics- Hawaii or otherwise. These storms- while strong- don't deliver as much moisture as atmospheric rivers. 

Totally normal storms