FOR MONO COUNTY:

FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER WEATHER SERVICE:

329 PM PST SUN FEB 13 2011

…HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM MONDAY TO 10 PM PST
TUESDAY…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RENO HAS UPGRADED THE HIGH WIND
WATCH TO A HIGH WIND WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM MONDAY
TO 10 PM PST TUESDAY.

* TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE EARLY MONDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE
  THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.

* WINDS: SOUTHWEST 25 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH AND RIDGE
  GUSTS UP TO 120 MPH.

* IMPACTS: STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS WILL PRODUCE
  HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES
  …ESPECIALLY ALONG HIGHWAY 395. LOOSE OUTDOOR ITEMS SHOULD BE
  BROUGHT INSIDE OR SECURED BEFORE THE EVENT BEGINS. LOCALIZED
  AREAS OF BLOWING DUST COULD REDUCE VISIBILITY TO 3 MILES OR
  LESS.


Dweebs Discussion from this morning…..

Big WX changes still in the cards for Mono County as the mild weather pattern of the past several weeks gives way to a much colder and active pattern. The first concerns for the weatherman will be  the winds that will be increasing throughout the day Monday buffeting Mono County. There is the possibility of damaging winds by Monday night into Tuesday morning for areas along the 395 corridor. At the moment, there is a high wind watch for those areas.

So for Monday, winds will increase mainly along the ridges. 700mb winds on this mornings GFS indicated 40 to 50 knots from the SW, so 80 to 100mph winds over the crest is possible. Further increase in speeds is possible Monday night into Tuesday Am with 700mb winds about 60Knots.

Bufkit profiles from Penn State  incorporating Skewt is showing a critical layer at 10,000 feet  which will provide the mechanism for a Mono County down-slope event that should peak here in the Mammoth area  Tuesday morning, however, winds will remain strong all day Tuesday.  Although strong winds are not uncommon up on Mammoth Mountain, strong down sloping winds across highway 395 into residential areas such as Crowley Lake , Aspen Springs Ranch north to Walker are much less common….occuring just a couple of times a year. Westerly Wind gusts 60 to 80 MPH are possible Monday night through Tuesday Night in the “most wind prone areas”.

Precipitation:

CRFC indicated just a few hundreds Monday near Yosemite with the freezing level at 7500feet. Then .28 Tuesday with the freezing level at 7300. So Mammoth Mountain may get a few inches of Snow Tuesday, nothing for the town of significance.

It will not be until Wednesday for the Moderate to Heavy snowfall. The cold front will probably come through early afternoon. Snowfall rates will increase to 2 to 3 inches per hour during the afternoon. HPC  has a 2.84 bulls-eye near Yosemite for the 48 hours period between 4:00am Wednesday and 4:00am Friday.  Although it appears that the lions share of precipitation of this storm will be up in Northern California, Mammoth Mountain could pick up as much as 3 feet by Thursday. The snow will be Cold and Powdery from Wednesday afternoon through the following several days. Ratios will begin about 10:1 then increase to 15:1 to as high as 20:1 by Wednesday night.

The outlook still looks unsettled with cold showery snowfall into the next weekend. The Dweebs will continue to fine tune the details as we get closer in time. There are more storms that will effect the central west coast in the next week to 10 days. The focus of those systems are in question at this time.


Pacific Energy Update:

Looking at the latest western pacific cyclogenisis starting the timing when the leading cyclonically curved isobar crosses 150E. The following timing is as per (96 hr) Hovmoller from Canadian and GFS north pacific sfc progs.


00z 12th- 00z 16th Tues PM


00z 15th- 00z 19th Fri PM


12z 18th- 12 22nd Tues AM


00z 21st- 00z 25th Thu PM


This timing is for amplification energy and not for moisture timing which can be caused by warm advection overrunning ahead of the dynamic forcing. In most cases the Hovmoller timing is more in line with the PVA or cold front timing. 

PS thanks Tom…….Hope your having a good time on the east coast…….:-)



The Dweeber………………………..:-)




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