LOCAL WEATHER DISCUSSION
CARSON
CITY, NEVADA
930 AM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6,
2008
MONTH TO DATE PRECIPITATION
FOR AUGUST IS 0.00. YEAR TO DATE
PRECIPITATION THE WATER YEAR 2007-2008 BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, IS 9.58 INCHES.
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SHORT TERM:
SKIES ARE MOSTLY SUNNY
THIS MORNING IN THE WAKE OF A WEAK LOW NOW MOVING NORTH INTO
OREGON AND IDAHO. DEWPOINTS ARE UP A BIT, INTO THE MID TO
UPPER 40S, WHILE DEW POINTS IN THE 50S ARE LOCATED TO THE SOUTH
AND EAST OF THE AREA. TODAY LOOKS TO BE PERHAPS THE MOST
ACTIVE DAY FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH ENOUGH AVAILABLE MOISTURE FOR
SOME WETTING RAINS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BEGIN TO DEVELOP
BY EARLY AFTERNOON WITH A CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURE OF NEAR 87F.
SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT SHOULD KEEPS STORMS MOVING FAIRLY RAPIDLY
BUT COULD DROP SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE ONLY CONCERN
IS THE AFTERNOON ZEPHYR MAY KICK IN LATER THIS AFTERNOON,
FOCUSING THUNDERSTORM FORMATION JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AREA,
AS LIGHT SOUTHWEST FLOW IS ALREADY EVIDENT THE UPPER
ELEVATIONS OF THE SIERRA.
ON THURSDAY, MOISTURE
REMAINS OVER THE AREA BUT THE FLOW BECOMES MORE SOUTHWESTERLY SO
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP EAST OF THE RENO/CARSON CITY
AREA. SOME STORMS MAY BE STRONG TO SEVERE WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF HAIL, STRONG OUTFLOW WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN. HIGHS TODAY AND THURSDAY WILL BE IN THE LOW 90S WITH
LOWS TONIGHT IN THE UPPER 50S.
FOR FRIDAY THROUGH THIS
WEEKEND, DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL PUSH ALL MOISTURE AND
INSTABILITY WELL EAST OF THE AREA AS A TROUGH APPROACHES THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. TEMPERATURES MAY ACTUALLY WARM A
COUPLE OF DEGREES DUE TO AFTERNOON WINDS AND LOW RELATIVE
HUMIDITY.
LONG TERM:
LOOKING AHEAD TO NEXT
WEEK, A TROUGH PERSISTS OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST WHILE A
STRONG RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST. AT THIS
TIME, THIS PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THE DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SO
TYPICAL AFTERNOON WINDS AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE.
IF THE RIDGE BUILDS AND BECOMES A BIT MORE AMPLIFIED, A RETURN
TO SOUTHERLY FLOW MAY OCCUR WITH ANOTHER BRIEF ROUND OF MOISTURE
ADVECTION AND THE SLIGHT POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGHS WILL WARM INTO THE LOW AND MID 90S WITH LOWS AT NIGHT IN
THE LOW TO MID 50S.
R
SANDBERG
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