A misplaced 'quite" and a game of cards.

Yesterday, I originally typed something along the lines of, "tomorrow morning will begin quite a bit foggier," and then went back and deleted the "quite."  Well that was a mistake.  It felt like August this morning.  Cool, damp and thick.  Even the surf was small and weak looking when I drove by Pleasure Point.  Oh well.  Most of that cleared out around 11:30 and the sun is out now.  Otherwise, not a whole lot to report today other than the models continue to pull back slightly on rain amounts.  Still seeing that chance for showers Saturday night, into Sunday morning.  Not that much down here, but it still looks like the ski resorts could be getting several inches to maybe just shy of a foot up along the crest.  It will be colder snow, but not so cold such that it won't stick.  It will be a nice set up for the holiday week.  Nicer than it is now, as it rained along the crest last night.  I imagine it is quite firm out there this morning.  Unless of course, it never refroze.  Anyway.

A winter fog creeping in along the coastal mountains.  

Next week is not as wet looking as it was a few days ago.  I know I was hoping for more torrents, especially seeing as I will be traveling in a tropical climate then.  It looks drier, but not dry.  And it most certainly looks colder.  So starting Saturday,  we get much cooler air.  High of 60F if we are lucky.  Light rain over night and slightly warmer temps for a few days.  Tuesday, cold air pours in, advancing in front of showers.  High just about 60F.  We see a chance for more light rain Tuesday night.  The Sierra will get hit with another round of snow similar to this weekend's.  Nothing special, but every inch counts, and this will help to continue to improve surface conditions.  Cold by Wednesday with a high sticking in the 50s.  Even colder Thursday, as we see another chance for a brief period of rain.  It currently looks like that by Friday we will see high pressure returning to the region and by the following week, we could see a return to the conditions that we had in January.  No, it won't be suddenly hot.  That took several weeks to develop.  But it will be dry and warm.  Nice, but not really what we need right now.  Still no sign of an extended wet period.  Pray for rain.  That great super wet storm basically put the northern portion of the state at 50% of average, for the month.  The southern half got pretty much nothing out of it.  We need way more and are currently sitting at 25-30% of average for the water year.  As is the snow pack.

I'll still keep an eye out for next week.  With a little bit of luck, we could see that system drive a bit further south and bless us with one of those big, cold systems that would give us all hope of winter sticking around a bit.  We need more than a single big storm right now.  We need ten or fifteen of those.