WeatherElement.com and SLOweather.com are please to announce the addition of the Santa Margarita Fire Department to our growing weather station network. Click the link on the SLOweather home page to see their weather conditions.
The interface was delivered today, Friday afternoon, 5 March, 2010, so expect the data to be live this evening.
Sunday’s February full moon becomes full at 8:40 AM PST. It sets at 6:17 AM, and rises at 6:26 PM PST. Itwas known by the Native Americans as the Snow Moon, Hunger Moon, or Storm Moon. With the weather we’ve had lately, Storm Moon is pretty close. From the storm start Friday evening through Saturday evening, SLOweather received 3.54″ of rain! WeatherElement stations east of us received lesser total precip amounts. The SLO Water Reclamation Facility 2 miles away received 1.87″, and the Islay Hill neighborhood got 1.26″. This shows how important the Irish Hills are to orographic enhancement of the local rainfall.
Also, SLOweather had pea-sized hail and a few peals of thunder Saturday morning. The local creeks are raging. It’s nice to hear the sound of Prefumo Creek down in the canyon.
SLOweather just had a small cell pass over us, with pea sized hail and heavy rain. I saw a peak rain rate of 4.06″ per hour for a short time.
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Tonight’s Full Wolf Moon set this morning at 6:34 AM and rises over San Luis Obispo this evening at 5:13 PM PST.
Other names for it are Old Moon, Moon After Yule, and Ice Moon.
The forecast is for a 10 percent chance of rain after 4pm and mostly cloudyskies today, so it’s not likely that we will be able to see it tonight.
The first storm will approach our area today with increasing southerly winds and rain. Periods of heavy rain will develop tonight into Martin Luther King Jr. Day along with moderate gale to fresh gale force (32-46 mph) southerly winds.
Rain amounts with this storm look to generally range from about 2 to 3 inches in the low elevation regions to 3 to 6 inches in the higher terrain and mountains with snow levels from 4,000 to 5,500 feet north to south today coming down to 3,500 to 5,000 feet Monday.
After a very brief break Monday night into Tuesday morning, another wet weather system will cross the state Tuesday afternoon with a return of rain and strong to moderate gale force (25- to 38-mph) southerly winds. The rain will turn to showers
by Tuesday night. Another storm, the strongest of the series, will cross the Central Coast Wednesday afternoon into Thursday with heavy rain and fresh gale to strong force (39- to 54- mph) southerly winds. This storm could bring flood and mudslide concerns to our area.
Total rainfall amounts from these systems could add 5 to 10 inches in the lower elevations and 12 to 18 inches in the higher terrain and mountains by Friday. Thunderstorm chances will increase later in the week as a cold air mass in the upper atmosphere filters across the region.
Saturday should be mostly dry, then another storm is forecast to arrive on Sunday with increasing southerly winds and periods of heavy rain.
Here at SLOweather, last night’s Blue Moon rose over the East Cuesta Ridge mountains 23 minutes after the official, horizon-based time of 5:11PM.
…and here’s the first sunrise of 2010…
The second full moon of December, commonly called a “Blue Moon”, rises locally at 5:11PM PST. That’s just a few minutes before sunset at 5:29 PM.
Today is the Winter Solstice, the first day of winter in the northern hemisphere. Winter officially begins at 9:47 AM PST.