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Weather update: Storm is swimming with the fishes

Posted by: Maven on March 5, 2010 at 3:22 pm

radarFrom the Accu-Weather Western Weather Blog:

“With regards with the Friday/Weekend storm we have talked about all week, the trend that started yesterday has continued right through today. That trend is for the storm to stay farther offshore as it drops south west of California Friday night and Saturday, then slower to move east through southern most California Saturday night and Sunday.

The afternoon visible satellite picture shows the low, approximately around 39N and 130W.

While there is a band of clouds just off the northern and north-central California coast, and radar is showing some returns from those clouds, that rain is probably just falling aloft as Virga. The low will track almost due south along, or near, 130 Friday night into much of Saturday. This will keep all the rain off the coast during this time for Central California leaving much of that area high and dry. … “

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