A photo from the Yosemite National Park webcam on Monday afternoon.
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September 3, 2019 - The National Weather Service Hanford Office Afternoon report.:
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Hanford CA 113 PM PDT Tue Sep 3 2019 .SYNOPSIS... A few strong thunderstorms may impact the Southern Sierra Nevada, Kern County mountains, and Kern County desert each afternoon and early evening from today through Thursday. High temperatures today through Thursday will be five to eight degrees above normal for this time of year. A cooling trend is expected this weekend. && .DISCUSSION...Convection has started over the Sierra as expected with some additional pockets over the San Emigdio, Tehachapi and Lake Isabella area mountains. Expect this to soon strengthen into isolated to scattered thunderstorms over the area this afternoon and early evening. Water vapor satellite imagery shows the center of high pressure over southern Arizona with southeast flow extending into Kern County and the Southern Sierra. Meanwhile low pressure is center along 35N/132W with a trough of low pressure extending east towards 125W. Over the next few days, models show the Pacific low moving slowly east across 130W with the ridge remains stationary over Arizona and southeast California. The low then becomes stationary west of the Northwest California coast on Thursday and this begins to shift the flow aloft over Central California to the south and then southwest. Given this scenario, afternoon and evening thunderstorms are again possible over the mountains both Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. On Friday the low lifts northeast across Oregon and dry southwest flow into Central California ends the threat of thunderstorms over the Sierra. Much cooler weather will occur this weekend as a trough of low pressure pushes through the area. A weak trough of low pressure remains over the area into early next week for continued cooler than normal weather.
Source: NWS