Southwest winds ahead of a cut-off low produced gusty conditions, especially across high elevations of central Nevada.
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Southwest winds ahead of a cut-off low produced gusty conditions, especially across high elevations of central Nevada.
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 Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 10, 1:52 PM PST, 9 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Elko NV 152 PM PST Fri Feb 10 2023 .SYNOPSIS...Dry weather will continue through the weekend though there will be a fair amount of clouds around Saturday, in association with an upper low over CA. Another system will bring snow showers amd more cold air to the region beginning Monday evening. && .SHORT TERM...Tonight through Sunday Upper level ridge located over the southern Rockies will keep quiet weather around this weekend for most. However, an upper trough offshore will be dropping southward over California Saturday morning through Sunday. With the upper ridge in place, this trough will not make any progress inland until Sunday night when it moves onshore as a closed cut off low over Baja California. Given the current forecast track of the low most precipitation will remain west of the Sierras. The only notable exception will be for far western Humboldt County Saturday morning as there may be enough spill over moisture for light snow showers across the mountains of the Sheldon wildlife refuge. Sunday a shortwave ridge will push southward heading for S CA in the wake of the upper low. By Sunday afternoon another trough will be on approach to the Pacific NW poised to take and inland route southward, entering the Silver State for Monday. Temperatures will range from the upper 20s to middle 40s for highs with lows dropping into the upper single digits to the lower 20s. Winds will be variable across most of the area for the weekend running at 5 to 10 MPH with a gust up to 15 MPH. the only exception will be across Humboldt County Saturday under the influence of the California system, here winds will be stronger out of the NE at 10 to 15 MPH with gusts up to 25 MPH possible. .LONG TERM...Sunday night through next Saturday. High pressure ridge over the region Sunday night into Monday morning will bring fair weather to the area. The story changes considerably Monday afternoon into Monday night as a trough of low pressure and associated strong cold front approach the state. The cold front will move through Monday night into Tuesday morning. Snow is also expected across much of central and northern Nevada with several inches expected in the mountain areas and generally less than inch in most valleys with isolated higher totals by Tuesday evening. Impacts could be amplified with strong northwest winds with gusts of 45 mph possible promoting blowing and drifting snow. Temperatures will be significantly colder Tuesday and Wednesday with high temperatures in some cases 20 degrees colder than Monday. Highs Tuesday and Wednesday are expected to be in the 20s and 30s with lower 20s possible in northeast Elko county. Widespread snow will end late Tuesday with lingering light snow wrap-around but less impactful snow showers expected late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning. The timing of this expected low pressure system has advanced in the past few model runs so confidence in timing is still low. Temperatures will remain quite cold through Thursday with some warming expected as the weekend approaches. Model guidance continues to show the coldest morning next week being Thursday with widespread single digits and below zero readings across eastern and northeastern Nevada. Quieter conditions are expected late next week with dry conditions. && .AVIATION...Consistent southerly winds are expected at KELY and to a lesser extent KTPH. Mainly northeast winds are expected along the I-80 corridor through this evening. Mid and upper-level cloud cover will increase across the state tonight as a weather disturbance impacts California. Dry conditions are expected at all terminals through Saturday. && .LKN Watches/Warnings/Advisories... None. && 98/93/93
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Station Mathers Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
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