Partly cloudy in the evening...then mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers and slight chance of showers after midnight. Windy. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Snow level 7000 feet. Lows 31 to 41 at 5000 feet...21 to 31 at 8000 feet. South winds 25 to 30 mph.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of showers in the morning. Breezy. Snow level 6000 feet. Highs 48 to 56 at 5000 feet...38 to 48 at 8000 feet. Southwest winds around 25 mph with gusts to around 55 mph.
Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows 28 to 38 at 5000 feet...19 to 29 at 8000 feet.
Thursday
Mostly sunny. Highs 50 to 58 at 5000 feet...41 to 51 at 8000 feet.
Thursday Night
Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow and rain. Windy. Lows 31 to 41 at 5000 feet...22 to 32 at 8000 feet.
Friday
Snow showers. Windy. Highs 38 to 46 at 5000 feet... 28 to 38 at 8000 feet.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Very windy. Colder. Lows 24 to 34 at 5000 feet...16 to 26 at 8000 feet.
Saturday and Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy. Highs 42 to 49 at 5000 feet...33 to 41 at 8000 feet. Lows 25 to 35 at 5000 feet... 16 to 26 at 8000 feet.
Sunday
Mostly cloudy. Not as cool. Highs 53 to 61 at 5000 feet...44 to 52 at 8000 feet.
... A pair of storms to affect the central California interior this week...
A pair of Pacific storms will move through central California interior this week... bringing cooler temperatures... breezy conditions and a chance for rain and mountain snow.
The first storm is the weaker of the two... and will quickly move through the region Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Rainfall amounts will be light... but the central San Joaquin Valley could see one or two hundredths of an inch as far south as Fresno Wednesday morning. The snow level will fall to around 6000 feet... with up to an inch of snow possible over the high country.
The second... and significantly stronger... storm will reach the central California interior Thursday night... and linger over the region through Friday night. This will be a colder system... and snow level will fall to around 4500 to 5000 feet during the day Friday. Rainfall amounts with this storm are uncertain at this time... but the valley floor could see as much as a quarter inch of rain... with between a half inch and an inch of rain over the southern Sierra Nevada... and up to a tenth of an inch of rain over the Tehachapi Mountains. Above 5000 feet... new snow totals for the southern Sierra Nevada could reach 6 to 8 inches by Saturday morning.
This storm also will bring gusty winds to the Sierra high country and through and below the passes of the Kern County mountains Friday and Friday night.
Listen to NOAA Weather Radio... or your favorite news source... for updates on this situation.