Southern California Weather Force

Issued Zones:  Kern County Mountains and Gorman Pass Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Short Term Forecast effective Saturday through Monday for showers … Date:  12/11/20 at 3:50 pm PT Forecast: A front will come into the area on Saturday morning and last throughout the day.  Another one comes overnight on Sunday and into Monday.  Combined, these fronts […]

Issued Zones:  All Mountains … High Desert … AV .. Morongo … All Island Zones … Santa Barbara … Ventura … SCV/SFV … Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a High Wind Warning / Wind Advisory Hybrid for Saturday … Date:  12/10/20 at 8:30am PT Forecast: Winds wiill be gusty in the Kern County mtn/des regions today, however the […]

Yesterday (Dec. 7th @ 1632 UT), the relatively small spot unleashed a C7-class solar flare and hurled a CME toward Earth – Worldwide Earthquake Intensity will increase along with disruptions in signals and GPS units … A pulse of X-rays from the flare ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere, causing a minor shortwave radio blackout over South America. Affected frequencies […]

Southern California Weather Force has issued a Santa Ana Wind Warning, upgraded from the Santa Ana Wind Watch issued on December 3rd.  A new 800 number has also been activated with a number of extensions for forecasts.  Photographers.  Remember I told you about the halo around the Moon last month?  Well grab the camera, Monday’s sunset may be one of […]

Issued Zones:  Western San Luis Obispo County Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Wind Watch with low/moderate risk fire hazard winds later Sunday night into Monday morning Date:  12/4/2020 at 7:30pm PT Forecast: A dry upper level low will move over the area and go due south through late Sunday night and into Monday morning.  This upper system […]

Issued Zones:  Western Santa Barbara County Vandenberg/Lompoc/Santa Maria … Site:  Southern California Weather Force has issued a Fog Advisory effective Saturday morning … Date:  12/4/20 at 3:05pm PT Forecast: Calm winds and an onshore flow will up the surface humidity levels by Saturday morning, causing visibility in the advisory area to drop below 1/4 of a mile, which can cause […]

This year’s pattern has a lot of blocking at the current time.  Blocking is when the atmosphere has strong ridges with deep upper-level lows on each side of it.  The ridge in the Pacific Northwest is a sign of the pattern to come. Now, what I am seeing this next week is a dry upper level low being blocked by […]

Nipping at the heels of the current Santa Ana Wind Event will be another event with a dry upper level low dropping out of due north and to the south of the region after the weekend.  When will the current event end and the next event begin?  Southern California Weather Force has issued another Santa Ana Wind Watch for after […]

Wind speeds have increased on the final outlook with winds starting later this evening in the prone zones and peaking overnight into Thursday morning, dropping off by Thursday evening below advisory levels in all areas.  This is a damaging level 8 event for the San Diego County Mountain/Foothill areas surrounding Ramona, the strongest east wind event since Fall 2003 and […]

A strong; but dry storm system will move into the four corners states on Wednesday night into Thursday.  The cold sinking air associated with it cannot be ignored, thus a wind watch has been issued for various parts, including the Metro areas so read on and view the micro-climate wind intensity models … The same system that will affect the […]