NEVADA CITY, Calif. October 4,2010 - The unsettled weather brought a plethora of lightning strikes throughout California on Saturday and Sunday. 8,598 hits were recorded throughout the state, with 2,632 strikes landing in the region's National Forests on Sunday.
The Tahoe National Forest reports five small fires from Saturday's lightning event, all of them are contained and in patrol status. Precipitation on the west side of the forest was spotty, according to Public Affairs Officer Ann Westling. The east side received over an inch of precipitation.
The daily weather discussion from NorthOps: "A low pressure trough moving into the North Ops region will stall and form a cutoff low over Central California Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday the low will weaken and move northeastward through Nevada. Showers and thunderstorms are possible mainly over the southern and eastern portions of the North Ops region through Wednesday, then in eastern areas Thursday as the low exits. A warming and drying trend is expected Friday through Sunday."
Lightning map courtesy TNF.
Northops weather remarks read as follows: "Cooler, higher-humidity weather has arrived over North Ops and will linger well into the week. A couple of different low pressure systems will be over the region through Thursday including a cut-off low that will linger for several days. There will be periods of and areas with light showers or rain and isolated thunderstorms much of the week, with most of the precip and thunderstorms expected to be over the eastern PSA's. Snow levels will drop to as low as 7000 ft with these systems. Tuesday a rather dry, mild and moderately strong N to NE wind will develop for the northern coast range mountains and the northern Sacramento Valley. However, because areas that develop significant warming/drying/wind from that pattern are likely to be rather patchy and/or of relatively short duration, no wide spread fire weather concerns are expected from that event. Higher pressure and warmer, drier conditions are likely to return late in the week. However, since confidence is low in these details regarding strength and timing in this sort of weather pattern, all of these potential weather events bear close monitoring."
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