Weather Alerts for California
1. Extreme Heat Warning for: Apple and Lucerne Valleys
2. Extreme Heat Warning for: Coachella Valley; San Diego County Deserts; San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning
3. Extreme Heat Warning for: Coalinga - Avenal; Fresno-Clovis; West Side Mountains South of 198; Buena Vista; Bakersfield; South End San Joaquin Valley; Fresno-Tulare Foothills; South End Sierra Foothills
4. Extreme Heat Warning for: Indian Wells Valley; Mojave Desert Slopes; Mojave Desert
5. Extreme Heat Warning for: West Side Mountains north of 198; Mariposa Madera Foothills
6. Extreme Heat Warning for: Western Siskiyou County; Central Siskiyou County
7. Flash Flood Warning for: Madera, CA; Mariposa, CA; Tuolumne, CA
8. Flash Flood Warning for: Nevada, CA; Sierra, CA; Washoe, NV
9. Flash Flood Warning for: San Bernardino, CA
10. Flood Advisory for: Lassen, CA; Plumas, CA
11. Flood Advisory for: Placer, CA; Washoe, NV
12. Flood Watch for: Mono; Mineral and Southern Lyon Counties; Greater Reno-Carson City-Minden Area
13. Heat Advisory for: Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties
14. Heat Advisory for: Los Banos - Dos Palos; Merced - Madera - Mendota; Planada - Le Grand - Snelling
15. Heat Advisory for: North Bay Interior Mountains; East Bay Interior Valleys; Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose; Eastern Santa Clara Hills; East Bay Hills
16. Heat Advisory for: North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County; Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties; Modoc County; South Central Oregon Cascades; Siskiyou Mountains and Southern Oregon Cascades; Klamath Basin; Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County; Central and Eastern Lake County
17. Heat Advisory for: Northern Humboldt Interior; Southern Humboldt Interior; Northwestern Mendocino Interior; Southeastern Mendocino Interior
18. Heat Advisory for: Northern Trinity; Southern Trinity; Northeastern Mendocino Interior; Northern Lake County; Southern Lake County
19. Heat Advisory for: San Bernardino and Riverside County Valleys-The Inland Empire
20. Heat Advisory for: San Diego County Inland Valleys
21. Heat Advisory for: Santa Ana Mountains and Foothills; Orange County Inland
22. Heat Advisory for: Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County; Northern Sacramento Valley; Central Sacramento Valley; Southern Sacramento Valley; Carquinez Strait and Delta; Northern San Joaquin Valley; Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County
23. Heat Advisory for: South Central Siskiyou County
24. Heat Advisory for: Southern Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco and Lake San Antonio; Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest; Mountains Of San Benito County And Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Park
25. Heat Advisory for: West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties; Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma; Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5; Delano-Wasco-Shafter; Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore; Visalia - Porterville - Reedley; Southeast San Joaquin Valley; Kern River Valley
26. Red Flag Warning for: Cuyama Valley; Santa Clarita Valley; San Luis Obispo County Mountains; Santa Ynez Mountains Western Range; Santa Ynez Mountains Eastern Range; Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains; Santa Susana Mountains; Southern Ventura County Mountains; Northern Ventura County Mountains; Interstate 5 Corridor; Western San Gabriel Mountains and Highway 14 Corridor; Eastern San Gabriel Mountains; Western Antelope Valley Foothills; Eastern Antelope Valley Foothills
27. Red Flag Warning for: Fort Tejon
28. Red Flag Warning for: Western Klamath National Forest; Central Siskiyou County Including Shasta Valley; Siskiyou County from the Cascade Mountains East and South to Mt Shasta; Modoc County Except for the Surprise Valley; Siskiyou Mountains; Southern Oregon Cascades; Klamath Basin and the Fremont-Winema National Forest; South Central Oregon Desert including the BLM Land in Eastern Lake and Western Harney Counties
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Weather Topic: What is Rain?
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Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain.
Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period
of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.
Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency
depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have
an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island.
Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of
cities is 30% greater.
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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?
Home - Education - Precipitation - Sleet
Next Topic: Snow
Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary
components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones,
and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and
therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.
The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be
wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer
layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air
it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water
droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is
freezing rain.
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