Clear skies and a cool airmass over the northern Sacramento Valley resulted in low temperatures in the region.
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The episode as NWS STO wrote it up.
Clear skies and a cool airmass over the northern Sacramento Valley resulted in low temperatures in the region.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sacramento, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 24, 8:00 PM PST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 900 PM PDT MON SEP 24 2007 .DISCUSSION... LOOKS LIKE A QUIET WEATHER NIGHT OVER INTERIOR NORCAL. WE REMAIN BETWEEN SYSTEMS TONIGHT WITH DOWNSTREAM TROUGH OVER THE MID SECTION OF THE COUNTRY AND BUILDING RIDGE OVER THE PACIFIC. WEAK TROUGH SAGGING INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AT THIS HOUR IS PROGGED TO SLIDE SOUTHWARD INTO OUR AREA ON TUESDAY. SHOULD NOT SEE MUCH OF AN IMPACT TO OUR WEATHER WITH ONLY SLIGHT HEIGHT FALLS OVER OUR AREA. GOING FORECAST APPEARS TO HAVE TRENDS HANDLED WELL SO NO UPDATES ARE PLANNED FOR THIS EVENING. JUSKIE .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... OTHER THAN A FEW MOSTLY HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS MOVING THROUGH THE NORTH ZONES FROM A WEAK SHORT-WAVE SKIES ARE MOSTLY SUNNY ACROSS MUCH OF REGION THIS AFTERNOON, WITH TEMPERATURES RUNNING FROM 1 TO AS MUCH AS 7 DEGREES ABOVE YESTERDAY AT THIS TIME. THIS FAIR WEATHER WILL PERSIST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AS HIGHER PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. THIS COUPLED WILL RELATIVELY LOWER PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH AND PROVIDING GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEASTERLY WINDS OVER THROUGH THE GAPS OF THE SIERRA AND NORTHERN FOOTHILLS FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS. MODELS ARE PROGGING AN ELONGATED HORIZONTAL TROUGH ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THAT IS FORECAST TO SPLIT OFF A CUTOFF LOW FOR WEDNESDAY WHICH WILL LOWER HEIGHTS ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY. THIS WILL REVERSE THE WARMING TREND...BUT AT THIS TIME ITS EXPECTED TO REMAIN DRY ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THEN. RANDY HARTLEY && .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH SOME OF THE NORTHEAST-SOUTHWEST ORIENTED CANYONS OF THE SIERRA. PATCHY FOG MAY OCCUR AGAIN LATE TONIGHT IN THE WIND SHELTERED CANYONS/VALLEYS OF THE SIERRA PRODUCING LOCAL LIFR CONDITIONS INTO TUESDAY MORNING. A LACK OF LONGLINE OBSERVATIONS FROM MATHER FIELD MEANS THE TAF WILL NOT BE AMENDED. THE ORIGINAL IS BASED ON OUR BEST ESTIMATE USING WEATHER OBSERVATIONS FROM OTHER AIRPORTS NEAR SACRAMENTO. && .STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA 430 AM PDT MON SEP 24 2007 CAZ013>019-063-064-066>069-251400- SHASTA LAKE AREA/NORTHERN SHASTA COUNTY- BURNEY BASIN/EASTERN SHASTA COUNTY-NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CENTRAL SACRAMENTO VALLEY-SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY- CARQUINEZ STRAIT AND DELTA-NORTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY- MOUNTAINS SOUTHWESTERN SHASTA TO NORTHERN LAKE COUNTIES- CLEAR LAKE/SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY-MOTHERLODE- EAST FOOTHILLS/NORTH SACRAMENTO VALLEY- WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY/LASSEN PARK-WEST SLOPE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA- 430 AM PDT MON SEP 24 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INTERIOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY LOCAL DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS OF WESTERN PLUMAS COUNTY...OTHERWISE NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE): HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/STO
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The daily minimum temperature record of 43 degrees at Redding Airport was tied. This record was previously set in 1920.
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