A northwest slider system is poised to cross the forecast area on Thursday, impacting mainly areas of notable precipitation in a larger area Los Angeles westward with the tail-end charlie into San Diego. This looks like it’ll be a series of fronts coming in.
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The Thursday system is a northwest slider type where west of Los Angeles will see more than say areas like San Diego County. The image of this article shows the key of various zones in the forecast area where I am expecting the most rainfall to be. I’ve added some categories and changed the ‘rain risk’ values around a bit. This far out I tend to not say how much one can receive but mainly on what to expect in terms of how you would see it, from sky pee onward to warning if need be. At the moment most areas south of the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Mountains from Yucaipa, Fontana, The San Gabriel Valley westward through Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and the Kern County Mountains would see the notable rainfall, with some areas in monitoring where the need for a flood advisory is possible. Northwest sliders do have better dynamics along the southern end of the Santa Barbara Mountains so this is under the monitoring zone. It is not in the warning area nor is one being detected on my model so it will not be a major event.
Timing of this would be starting overnight on Wednesday in the San Luis Obispo / Vandenberg Air Force Base zones, sliding into Los Angeles by morning on Thursday and just before noon or so for San Diego and the Inland Empire. High Deserts have not notable/sky pee so I would not expect much in those zones, and the Imperial Valley to Colorado River Valley zones of the Low Desert are notorious for ‘The Shaft Zone’ when it comes to this, meaning you won’t get precipitation as the Riverside and San Diego County Mountains will act as a wall, creating your rain-shadow effect there.
It’ll be windy in most sectors of the forecast region with this system on Thursday, the most happening in the mountain and desert regions and advisory and/or warnings will be needed.
The snow-level looks to be around 7,300 FT with wet snow to 6,300 FT and a mix down to near 5,500, however, no snow in populated areas is going to happen with this front.
I am not seeing anything in the way of thunderstorm dynamics with this event at the moment.
After that, another front possible by the weekend and another early this next week. We seem to be in a series of fronts. There is still the chance of that heatwave around May 23rd to the 28th or so give or take a day on each side. Looking at the ‘super-long range’ values, there will be times in June where we have upper low-pressure systems west of us and this could bring abnormally cool temperatures at times that month. Truly an interesting end of Spring it will be.
As always, stay tuned to official forecasts from Southern California Weather Force for updates …
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