I like to go to the horse's mouth, so to speak, for weather information. They are the source of most of the data. I like their forecast discussion too:
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
405 AM PST Wed Nov 16 2016
.SYNOPSIS...
Weather system will continue a few showers across the region today. Dry weather returns Thursday and Friday before another weather system approaches for the weekend.
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.Discussion...
Clear to partly cloudy skies across interior NorCal early this morning in the wake of yesterday`s initial frontal passage. Only a few showers are present over the northern Sierra Nevada. Current temperatures are cooler across most of the area compared to 24 hours ago, especially in the mountains where readings are running 10-15 degrees lower.
The second part of the weather system will move across the area today as the upper trough passes overhead and another surge of colder air works its way into the region. Radar indicates extensive showers along the northwest coast of California, and some of these will make their way inland this morning as the upper trough moves through. QPF will be light.
Some showers will linger into early this evening over the northern mountains and along the northern Sierra crest, but a transition to anti-cyclonic northwest flow behind the trough will dry things out by early Thursday. Clearing skies will set the stage for some chilly mornings across interior NorCal late this week while afternoon highs will moderate a bit.
Next system forecast to move into the region Friday night and Saturday, but timing of onset and extent of precipitation across NorCal still rather tricky as models have shown difficulty with the splitting trough along 130W.
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.EXTENDED DISCUSSION (Sunday THROUGH Wednesday)
Cool and unsettled weather is expected through the extended period.
Scattered showers expected across the area on Sunday as upper trough splits, with much of the energy and moisture heading into southern California. A few inches of snow are possible at Sierra pass levels, which could cause some travel issues. Showers will linger into Monday, with generally light rain and mountain snow amounts. By Tuesday, a brief period of upper ridging will bring dry weather.
And I like it because they also have an AVIATION section in the area forecast discussion. I use many sources for weather, but the NWS is always a good one. I also like Weather Underground, they have many weather stations online including mine (KPABETHE4). Mine lost the wind cups recently, got the new ones and just need to put them on. I can always find a station near where we are working to verify T and P for edm reductions.
And I was able to use a local weather station to show the insurance company how my R8 blew into the river in August. They commented on that, siad it was helpful to understand how it happened. It was clearly a sudden wind gust from a front passing through.
We have had a very wet fall so far in PDX. Record rainfall for October. Supposed to be getting the first snows in the mountain passes in the next few days.
California please come get your weather. We don't know how to handle these fires in the Southeast. I have never seen it this bad in Northern GA.
The South Mountain fire in NC is about 15 minutes North of me. I can see the mountain and state park from my house on most days. I have only gotten a few glimpses of it lately. Last week the wind was blowing directly toward me and I couldn't see 500 feet down the road. It's kinda scary, no chance of rain to help out either.
Yep, I'm in the smoke cloud of the most eastern fire.
