Expect dry weather before Fresno’s next winter storm. But when will more rain arrive?
The Fresno-area will get its next storm early next week, lasting about 18 hours and bringing between half an inch and three-quarters of an inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service.
The system follows a powerful winter rainstorm that hit Northern California in late October with heavy rain and high winds before whipping through the central San Joaquin Valley.
But before the next storm arrives, it’s expected to be dry on Saturday and Sunday, said David Spector, a meteorologist with the NWS in Hanford. High temperatures for Saturday are forecast to be around 70, and a high of lower 60s for Sunday.
Low temperatures for the weekend are expected to be in the 40s.
“It will definitely be dry during the weekend,” he said Friday. “We do have a storm that is going to move through late Monday night through Tuesday evening, and it’s going to give us, probably, a quick shot of precipitation.”
The storm is expected to last around 18 hours, which is “pretty typical for a winter storm,” Spector said.
“It’s going to be cooler than normal,” he said.
On Monday and Tuesday, high temperatures are forecast to be in the lower 60s, and the lows will be around 40 on Monday and mid-40s on Tuesday.
After the winter storm, the weather in Fresno from Wednesday through Friday is forecast to be “pretty much close to normal for this time of year,” Spector said. The low temperatures for that time period will be in the upper 40s, and for the highs, in the middle 60s.
“It looks like after this storm, we are going to be dry for awhile,” he said. “We’ll have a big ridge (of high pressure) over us, so it will probably be foggy sometimes, but we probably won’t see any storms.”
Monday’s storm won’t be as strong as the one that hit the area late last month. That powerful storm broke the daily record of precipitation for Fresno, flooding streets and causing power outages for thousands of PG&E customers.
“This is more of the typical 15- to-18-hour winter storm event,” Spector said. “It’ll move in and move out.”
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