Progressive systems moved through and continued to move through the area around the 20th, though deep soil moisture and overnight cooling lead to fog development.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS HNX wrote it up.
Progressive systems moved through and continued to move through the area around the 20th, though deep soil moisture and overnight cooling lead to fog development.
3 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Multiple stations reported visibility less than 1/4 mile such as: KMER, KMCE, and KFCH. Also, KFAT reported 1/8 of mile as well.
Less than 1/4 mile was reported at KHJO at 0753.
Less than 1/4 mile was reported at KBFL at 0724.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 2015
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 613371, 613372, 613373.