Snow in the California mountains means a white Christmas

Your weather forecast this Christmas holiday will be different depending on where you’re planning to celebrate it. The forecast is a mixed bag – it will be damp and cool on the West Coast, while NY will see record highs.

Thursday night: A 50 percent chance of showers, mainly before 10 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34.

“It looks like there’s going to be a chance for additional heavy snow, and there’s a lot of winter watches and warnings out across the western USA currently”, Oravec says. “That’s when flood concerns will start to mount”.

That means a quarter-inch or less of rain in most of the Central Valley. Well, maybe there will be a little bit of hail. And it will likely be damp the rest of the year, National Weather Service forecasters said. High temperatures will be around 50° area-wide, but temperatures will also decrease after lunch time.

There is hope for change as we get closer and closer to the weekend but it’s not until after we get through another round of rain on Christmas Day and then again on Sunday. This is impressive because usually milder temperatures in December bring precipitation, according to him. With high temperatures near 80 and warm, muggy southerly winds, it will feel more like Spring Break than Christmas. “Daytime temperatures of 5-10C with strengthening southerly winds“. Under a mostly cloudy sky, highs Christmas Day will be in the low to mid 70s.

“This has been the fairly well-predicted result of a near-record setting El Nino” weather pattern, Browning said.

“Well at this time, Christmas Eve/Day, is looking very warm”.

The local forecast calls for showers and possibly a thunderstorm Wednesday with fog in the morning and a high in the upper 60s.

Somewhere between 3 to 6 inches of rain is expected Thursday through Tuesday, which could cause flooding issues.

The jet stream is that river of air that hovers 20,000 to 30,000 feet above us in the atmosphere.