According, To my local weather office it says this:
Winter Storm Warning for the Following Areas:
Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County
White Mountains of Inyo County
Winter Weather Advisory for the Following Areas:
Spring Mountains-Sheep Range
Mono County-Including the cities of Bridgeport, Colevillen, Lee Vining, and Mammoth Lakes
Flood Advisory for the Following Areas:
Las Vegas Valley
I copied this directly form the Las Vegas and Reno weather office and my question was should we start an article for this naming it Thanksgiving Costal Storm (2008) or 2008 Thanksgiving Coastal Storm. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home , User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox
- Now it says this:
A STRONG PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING WIDESPREAD RAIN
AND VERY HIGH ELEVATION SNOW TO THE REGION TODAY AND THANKSGIVING
DAY...ALONG WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES. THE STORM WILL DEPART ON
FRIDAY...WITH RAIN CHANCES ENDING AND TEMPERATURES REBOUNDING A FEW
DEGREES. DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE
FIRST OF DECEMBER...WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS OVER THE WEEKEND.
&&
SATELLITE SHOWS THE MAIN LOW CENTER SPINNING INTO THE
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATERS. AREA RADARS SHOW THE MAIN BAND
OF PRECIP INVADING OUR FAR WESTERN CWFA AND MOVING GENERALLY NORTH.
CURRENTLY THE NAM12 SEEMS TO HAVE THE BEST LOCATION OF THE PRECIP
BAND AND THE DRY SLOT OVER THE COASTAL WATERS BETWEEN THE PRECIP
BAND AND THE MAIN CIRCULATION CENTER. HOWEVER...AM A BIT SKEPTICAL
OF THE RAPID EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF THE PRECIP DEPICTED IN THE NAM12
FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING. BASED MOST CRITICAL FORECAST DECISIONS
ON THE NAM12 SOLUTION ADJUSTED FOR A SLIGHTLY SLOWER EASTWARD SPREAD
OF THE PRECIP. THE FIRST ISSUE WAS THE WINTER STORM WATCH. MOST
RECENT OBS INDICATE TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 40S AT 7200 FEET AND
UPPER 30S AT 9000 FEET IN THE LOCAL MOUNTAINS...AND UPPER 30S AT
6750 FEET IN THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS...WITH SATURATED OR NEAR
SATURATED CONDITIONS IN BOTH AREAS SO NO ROOM FOR WET BULB COOLING.
THUS...STILL BELIEVE THAT THE MAIN PRECIP BAND WILL COME THROUGH AS
RAIN AT THE RESORT LEVEL...WITH SNOW CONFINED TO THE UNPOPULATED
HIGHER AREAS. SNOW AT THE RESORT LEVEL WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE
MAIN CIRCULATION CENTER TO APPROACH...BY WHICH TIME THE MAIN
MOISTURE FEED WILL BE WELL TO THE EAST. THUS...MODERATE RAIN
FOLLOWED BY ONLY A FEW INCHES OF SNOW STILL SEEMS THE MOST LIKELY
OUTCOME. UPGRADED THE WINTER STORM WATCH TO A WINTER WEATHER
ADVISORY...WHICH SEEMED TO BE THE MOST PRUDENT COURSE OF ACTION
CONSIDERING BOTH METEOROLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS. FOR THE
REMAINDER OF THE AREA...EVEN AFTER SLOWING DOWN THE NAM12...IT IS
POSSIBLE THAT THE SIGNIFICANT RAIN COULD BE OVER BY THIS EVENING
/EXCEPT IN MOHAVE COUNTY WHERE BETTER MOISTURE LINGERS UNTIL
TOMORROW MORNING/. PRECIP CHANCES WILL THEN DECREASE FROM WEST TO
EAST THANKSGIVING DAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT AS THE LOW CENTER CROSSES
OUR CWFA. BY FRIDAY MORNING...ANY LINGERING PRECIP CHANCES SHOULD BE
CONFINED TO MOHAVE COUNTY. TEMPERATURES WILL COME DOWN QUITE A BIT
FROM THE WELL ABOVE NORMAL READINGS OF LATE...WITH POINT TEMPS
HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON CLOUD COVER AND PRECIP BOTH TODAY AND
THANKSGIVING DAY. ABOUT FIVE DEGREES OF RECOVERY CAN BE EXPECTED ON
FRIDAY ASSUMING NO WRAP AROUND CLOUDS RAISING HAVOC.
A REX BLOCK PATTERN IS FORECAST BY THE GFS/ECMWF/GEFS
OVER THE WEEKEND WITH STRONG HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OFF THE NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA COAST AND LOW PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH. ESSENTIALLY WHAT
THIS MEANS FOR THE WEEKEND WEATHER IS MOSTLY CLEAR/DRY CONDITIONS
AND ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. A NORTHERLY SURFACE
PRESSURE GRADIENT IS FORECAST TO SET UP OVER THE CWA AS A SURFACE
HIGH BUILDS OVER THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN. THIS WILL BRING SOME
GUSTY NORTH WINDS TO MUCH OF THE AREA THIS WEEKEND WITH THE
STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY.
AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...CLOUD COVER WILL PERSIST OVER THE VALLEY
AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MAKES ITS WAY ONSHORE TODAY. CEILINGS
CURRENTLY RANGING FROM 8-10KFT ARE EXPECTED TO LOWER TO AROUND 5KFT
BY 14Z. AS RAIN DEVELOPS...LOCAL CIGS OF 2-4KFT WITH SOME VISIBILITY
RESTRICTIONS ARE POSSIBLE. LOWER CLOUDS AND RAIN SHOWERS WILL BE
POSSIBLE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY AS THE LOW MOVES ACROSS THE REGION.
FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST
CALIFORNIA...CIGS WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER AND RAIN WILL DEVELOP OVER
THE REGION AS A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM MOVES INLAND TODAY. CIGS ARE
CURRENTLY RANGING FROM 6KFT IN THE WEST TO AROUND 10KFT IN THE EAST.
CIGS WILL CONTINUE TO LOWER AS RAIN DEVELOPS THIS MORNING. SOME
AREAS COULD SEE CIGS AOB 2KFT AND VISIBILITY AOB 5 SM IN MODERATE
RAIN SHOWERS TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL A POSSIBILITY THIS
AFTERNOON...MAINLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40. RANGE FROM 5-8K AGL AND
THEN DECREASE OVERNIGHT AND ON INTO WEDNESDAY. LOWER CLOUDS AND RAIN
SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY AS THE LOW MOVES
ACROSS THE REGION.
I feel it warrants its own article. Should I start the sandbox for it today? BTW, If I create one it would be my
first article for this project. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home , User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox
- No, not yet at least. Hundreds (thousands?) of winter storm warnings are issued each year, so unless the storm causes widespread damage, a section in this article will suffice. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 16:26, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- I will keep an eye on the storm and will start a section soon. Hopefully, I will expand it from time to time and split it up into an article if it warrants one. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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- Done. Leave Message ,Yellow Evan home , User:Yellow Evan/Sandbox
