New Year's Day greeted Fresno with a half-inch of rain Thursday morning and more precipitation is in the National Weather Service forecast. (Shutterstock)
Share
|
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
New Year’s Day greeted Fresno with a half-inch of rain Thursday morning and more precipitation is in the National Weather Service forecast.
Showers are expected to continue through the weekend accompanied by the potential for thunderstorms on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, NWS Hanford said.
The forecast anticipates Sunday for the heaviest rainfall with between a half-inch and an inch adding to Fresno’s wet winter.
There’s also a 20% chance of rain on Tuesday.
View the NWS 7-day forecast for Fresno at this link.
Flood Watch, Winter Weather Advisory
Meanwhile, NWS is continuing its Flood Watch to 10 p.m. Thursday for southern and eastern Kern County. NWS also has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Sierra Nevada above 6,000 feet from Yosemite to Kings Canyon nationals parks. The advisory is for early Saturday through early Sunday afternoon.
However, the Winter Weather Advisory could be extended or upgraded to a warning because a new band of precipitation is expected later Sunday.
That storm will bring “significant snow above 6,000 feet for much of the Sierra Nevada, including to Tulare County,” NWS Hanford said in its New Year’s Day morning discussion.
The dense fog that has enveloped the San Joaquin Valley this winter “will continue to be an issue as well,” NWS Hanford said.
RELATED TOPICS:
