Hydrometeorological Discussion National Weather Service / California Nevada RFC / Sacramento CA 1220 PM PDT Tue Mar 17 2026 ...RECORD WARM TEMPERATURES AND DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH THIS WEEK... ...MAYBE A STRAY SHOWER IMPACTING SRN OR CASCADES FRI PM/SAT AM... .METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (TUE PM - MON AM)... Little change to the afternoon forecast that will be dominated by a strong high pressure ridge moving slowly across the region...finally exiting by this weekend. Still anticipating record heat for March each of the next 4 to 5 days with afternoon high temperature anomalies peaking this Thursday and Friday anywhere from plus 15- to plus 30-degF over seasonal normals. A moisture plume making its way from near the Hawaiian Islands to the Pacific Northwest will bring widespread precip to coastal BC and WA this week. A s/wv trof approaching the coast near Vancouver Island on Friday will finally displace this moisture plume southward toward the CA/OR border late Friday into early Saturday...but erode considerably as the moisture interacts with the warm and dry airmass overhead. Models are starting to hint at a few showers making their way down to the upper Klamath River basin. Decided to include a couple hundredths of an inch of precip to the crest of the southern OR Cascades near Crater Lake. And that is all for precip excitement across the region into early next week. |