Weather Alerts for California
1. Flood Watch for: Cuyama Valley; Santa Clarita Valley; San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys; San Luis Obispo County Mountains; Ventura County Beaches; Ventura County Inland Coast; Lake Casitas; Ojai Valley; Central Ventura County Valleys; Malibu Coast; Los Angeles County Beaches; Palos Verdes Hills; Los Angeles County Inland Coast including Downtown Los Angeles; Western Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area; Eastern Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area; Calabasas and Agoura Hills; Western San Fernando Valley; Eastern San Fernando Valley; Southeastern Ventura County Valleys; Santa Susana Mountains; Interstate 5 Corridor; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains; Western Antelope Valley Foothills; Eastern Antelope Valley Foothills; Antelope Valley; Los Angeles County San Gabriel Valley
2. Flood Watch for: San Diego County Coastal Areas; San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire; San Diego County Inland Valleys; San Bernardino County Mountains; Riverside County Mountains; Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills; San Diego County Mountains; Orange County Coastal; Orange County Inland
3. Flood Watch for: San Luis Obispo County Beaches; San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast; Santa Lucia Mountains; Southern Salinas Valley; Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches; Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast; Santa Ynez Valley; Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast; Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast; Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range; Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range; Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains; Southern Ventura County Mountains
4. High Surf Advisory for: San Luis Obispo County Beaches; Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches
5. High Wind Watch for: Santa Lucia Mountains; San Luis Obispo County Mountains
6. Wind Advisory for: Apple and Lucerne Valleys; Coachella Valley; San Diego County Deserts; San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning
7. Wind Advisory for: Death Valley National Park; Western Mojave Desert; Eastern Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve; Western Clark and Southern Nye County; Spring Mountains-Red Rock Canyon; Las Vegas Valley; Southern Clark County
8. Wind Advisory for: Imperial County Southwest
9. Wind Advisory for: Indian Wells Valley; Mojave Desert Slopes; Mojave Desert
10. Wind Advisory for: Marin Coastal Range; Sonoma Coastal Range; Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore
11. Wind Advisory for: Morongo Basin; Cadiz Basin
12. Wind Advisory for: Salton Sea; Imperial County West; Imperial Valley
13. Wind Advisory for: Salton Sea; Imperial County West; Imperial Valley
14. Wind Advisory for: San Francisco Peninsula Coast; Santa Cruz Mountains; East Bay Hills; Northern Monterey Bay
15. Wind Advisory for: San Francisco; Eastern Santa Clara Hills
16. Wind Advisory for: San Luis Obispo County Beaches; San Luis Obispo County Inland Central Coast; Santa Barbara County Central Coast Beaches; Santa Barbara County Inland Central Coast
17. Wind Advisory for: Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest; Mountains Of San Benito County And Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Park; Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast
18. Wind Advisory for: Southern Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco and Lake San Antonio; Northern Salinas Valley/Hollister Valley and Carmel Valley
19. Wind Advisory for: Southern Salinas Valley; San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys
20. Wind Advisory for: West Side Mountains north of 198; West Side Mountains South of 198; Buena Vista
21. Winter Storm Warning for: Greater Lake Tahoe Area; Greater Lake Tahoe Area
22. Winter Storm Warning for: Mono
23. Winter Storm Warning for: Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County; Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County
24. Winter Storm Warning for: Western Plumas County/Lassen Park; West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada
25. Winter Storm Warning for: Yosemite NP outside of the valley; Upper San Joaquin River; Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge; Kings Canyon NP; Grant Grove Area; Sequoia NP; South End of the Upper Sierra
26. Winter Storm Watch for: Piute Walker Basin; Tehachapi; Frazier Mountain Communities
27. Winter Storm Watch for: San Bernardino County Mountains; Riverside County Mountains
28. Winter Storm Watch for: San Diego County Mountains
29. Winter Storm Watch for: Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains; Southern Ventura County Mountains; Northern Ventura County Mountains; Interstate 5 Corridor; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains
30. Winter Weather Advisory for: Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties
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Weather Topic: What is Rain?
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Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain.
Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period
of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.
Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency
depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have
an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island.
Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of
cities is 30% greater.
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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?
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Next Topic: Snow
Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary
components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones,
and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and
therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.
The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be
wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer
layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air
it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water
droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is
freezing rain.
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