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It’s been a while since I posted photos, and the spring photos are getting a little backed up…

Johnny-Jump-Ups…

Yarrow…

Blue Dicks…

Bobby looking for a snack…

Buttercups…

Chocolate Lilies…

Mourning Dove…

California Poppies…

More to come…

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION:

The cold which passed our area early Friday morning produced 0.58 inches of rain at the Diablo Canyon Ocean Lab.

The last in the recent series of cold fronts will pass our area Sunday morning with rain. This cold front should weaken south of San Francisco before it reaches our area. Rainfall totals should range between one-third to two-thirds of an inch. Rain will turn to showers and a chance of thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon, ending by Sunday night.

Note: Snow levels will start out near 6000 feet in the North and 7000 feet in the Central and Southern Sierra, and then fall to 4500 feet in the North and 5000 feet in the Central and Southern Sierra Sunday morning. Over a foot of snow is expected at the higher elevations by Sunday afternoon.

High pressure will dominate our area for the rest of the week with fair skies and warmer temperatures. Northwesterly winds will increase on Monday and Wednesday as upper-level troughs move inland to the north of Diablo Canyon. However, beginning Thursday, and lasting into next weekend, a strong ridge of high pressure is expected to build in and will bring mostly clear weather with above normal temperatures with many inland areas reaching the mid 80s.

The longer range charts do not indicate any rain for an extended period.

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If you have questions about this forecast please contact John Lindsey at – e-mail: jcl5@pge.com, phone: 545-3191, pager: 3191. Some of the information in this forecast is provided by Pacific Weather Analysis.

A recording of this forecast can be reached at 805-545-3768. This forecast is only valid for the Diablo Canyon coastline (about 1/2 miles north, south and west of the Power Plant).

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION:

This afternoon’s Doppler Radar indicates a band of rain showers moving south along the Central California coastline towards our area. Light rain will reach the Diablo Canyon coastline this evening around (5PM) and continue through tonight.

An upper-level low will move southeastward along the California coast tonight, passing our area early Friday morning with moderate rain. Moderate rain will turn to scattered rain showers and a slight chance for thunderstorms by Friday afternoon. Precipitation amounts for tonight through Friday look to be in the 0.45″-0.75″ range.

Variably cloudy skies are expected on Friday night through Saturday.

Another and somewhat stronger weather system will approach our area late Saturday night, bringing moderate rain across our area by Sunday afternoon through Sunday night. Also, there is a chance for thunderstorms across all locations on Sunday afternoon. Precipitation totals will be in the vicinity of an 3/4 of a inch. Also, snow totals in the 1-2 foot range in the central Sierra are likely by Sunday.

Skies will begin to clear from north to south on Monday morning. Fair and warmer weather is expected across our area for the remainder of the week next week.

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If you have questions about this forecast please contact John Lindsey at – e-mail: jcl5@pge.com, phone: 545-3191, pager: 3191. Some of the information in this forecast is provided by Pacific Weather Analysis.
A recording of this forecast can be reached at 805-545-3768. This forecast is only valid for the Diablo Canyon coastline (about 1/2 miles north, south and west of the Power Plant).

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION:

Fresh to strong northwesterly winds have developed along the entire California coastline this afternoon and will further increase on
Wednesday; then decreasing as the next frontal system begins to dig southward on Thursday through Friday. This cold front should follow a track further to the west than the last several fronts and therefore will produce prefrontal southerly winds on Thursday night through Friday morning. This condition will give moderate rainfall over our area on
Friday. Precipitation amounts look to be in the 0.40″-0.70″ range.

Note: Snow levels with this storm will be rather winter-like, where a foot or more of snow is expected across the Sierra by Friday.

Clouds look to quickly increase again on Sunday morning. Rain is likely Sunday afternoon through Monday morning. Amounts with this system look similar or possibly more, but snow levels will be a little higher, in the 4500-6000′ range.

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If you have questions about this forecast please contact John Lindsey at –
e-mail: jcl5@pge.com, phone: 545-3191, pager: 3191. Some of the information in this forecast is provided by Pacific Weather Analysis.

A recording of this forecast can be reached at 805-545-3768. This
forecast is only valid for the Diablo Canyon coastline (about 1/2
miles north, south and west of the Power Plant).

DCPP Atmospheric UPDATE for Wednesday 04/11/07

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITION:

A fast moving cold front, now just north of Monterey, will slide further south than expected on yesterday’s forecast. This cold front will produce increasing clouds and drizzle/light rain showers over the Diablo Canyon area late this morning through this afternoon. Precipitation amounts should remain below 0.10″.

Note: This system is producing snow in the Sierra, where up to 6″ of snow could fall across the Central and Northern Sierra by midday Thursday when the snow is expected to cease.

Mostly clear and windy weather will develop tonight and will continue through Friday with below normal temperatures.
Another cold front is expected to produce light rain showers on on Saturday, followed by increasing northwesterly winds on Sunday
through Monday.

A few days ago I upgraded the blog software so I could use a spam filter to deal with the increasing influx of spam “comments”. This because after just less than a week of not checking, I had over 4,800 spam messages to sort through.

If you have a blue rectangle for the page title up above, hit Refresh/Reload/F5 or whatever reloads the current page in your browser and the current background picture should load.

And, BTW, the spam filter is working famously. Zero spam comments in the last few days since I installed it.

Katie here (the wife) writing a blog for the first time on SLOWeather. Here is a pic of the cottontail bunny I saw yesterday morning munching on the bird seed under the feeder. Hey, it’s the Easter Bunny! Hope you all have a great Easter…will blog again soon.

Today’s Full Pink Moon becomes full at 10:15 AM PDT, before rising locally at 7:45 PM PDT this evening. Native America called it the Pink Moon after wild ground phlox, which is is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names were the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Flower Moon, the Moon When Geese Return in Scattered Formation, the Egg Moon, and — among coastal tribes — the Full Fish Moon. I Colonial America, the April FUll Moon was known as the Planter’s Moon. Among the Celts, it was called the Growing Moon.