...SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER CNTRL/SRN CA TODAY/FRI AS A LOW MOVES BY
OFFSHORE AND OVER NV FRI AS A TROUGH DROPS IN...
...DRY CONDITIONS RETURN LATER SAT THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS OFFSHORE, NEXT POTENTIAL SYSTEM MID-WEEK...

.METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (THU PM - WED AM)...

An upper low continues to travel to the south offshore of srn CA
this afternoon. Radar shows areas of precip rotating into srn CA
near Orange County inland and northward over the Big Sur coast this
afternoon. Observations since this morning report amounts generally
less than 0.10" with a couple isolated areas just over 0.10".
Forecast overall remains on track for showers to continue through
tomorrow across srn CA as the low passes diminishing into Saturday
as it moves inland over Baja. A trough descending into NV and
eastern CA may produce a few showers over NV into Saturday before
dry conditions return the rest of this weekend thanks to building
high pressure over the eastern Pacific.

Models continue to predict a frontal system arriving mid next week
but disagreements remain on the general structure and timing. A wide
range of solutions exists in the model ensembles, but most agree on
at least some precip over nrn CA late Tuesday/Wednesday. Most of
this precip looks to fall after the current forecast window.
Therefore, minimal changes to the afternoon QPF though amounts went
down a bit over srn CA over the next couple of days. Expecting 0.10"
or less in general from both systems with isolated areas up to 0.25".