Southern California Daily Snow
By Mike Korotkin, Meteorologist Posted 1 year ago February 6, 2023
Windy to Warm Weather
Summary
We'll see mostly dry and warming conditions all of this week. Breezy conditions on Monday will taper off going into the rest of the week. Precip chances do increase going into the weekend but nothing significant yet. Next week may feature more active weather but there's no consensus on exactly how strong the storms might be.
Short Term Forecast
Snow Recap
As expected from the snow showers yesterday, Sunday the resorts are showing they picked up a trace to about an inch of snow. That was the forecast from Saturday so a quick hitting and fast system passed through.
Monday - Friday
Here's the forecast for Snow Summit for the next 6 days:
In the quick storm's wake it's left mostly sunny skies and plenty of wind. Today, Monday the 6th will feature breezy conditions out of the Northeast with gusts up to 40 MPH. Temps will also be on the cooler side with highs in the high 20's and low 30's.
Tuesday will be warmer with mid 30's for highs and continued Northeast winds up to 30 MPH.
By Wednesday we'll have calmer winds and mostly sunny skies with highs getting even warmer into the mid 40's. That rend continues into Friday with highs in the 40's and lighter winds winds some passing clouds.
As you can see though it looks like it's staying dry through Saturday of next weekend.
Extended Forecast
The models are trying to build in a more active pattern starting next weekend and into the 3rd week of February. But they're having a difficult time setting up the storms for us that give us more than just shots of cold air and weak systems.
You cans see the GFS Ensemble Mean shows a trough centered over SoCal by next Sunday.
But the orientation and precip it's forecasted to drop on the Ensemble runs is not impressive at all as not even all the runs show it actually dropping anything.
You can see compared to the Euro Ensemble Mean below the GFS is actually showing less precip. The GFS Ensemble Mean is in red, while the Euro is in blue.
Either way all of next week they're both showing under 0.50 inches... meaning it's not much liquid.
You can see on the 7 day anomaly for next week that it's either average or below average so I'm still thinking we're not going to see anything too exciting in the way of a big storm next week.
Naturally we're looking pretty far out so this is all subject to change but these are the trends I've been seeing for a while now.
I'll keep you posted on any updates.
Till the next one... Mike out.
About Our Forecaster
Mike Korotkin
Meteorologist
Mike graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor’s in Atmospheric Science and received his Masters in Atmospheric Science at the University of Nevada Reno. He grew up in Southern California by the beach, but quickly realized he loved the mountains, so his first memories were of the SoCal mountains where he saw snow for the first time. He started skiing in his 20’s and is now an avid skier and backpacker at locations up and down the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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