December Summary; Seasonal Precipitation Snapshot; La Niña; AMS in Seattle - Golden Gate Weather Services

December Summary; Seasonal Precipitation Snapshot; La Niña; AMS in Seattle

December Summary; Seasonal Precipitation Snapshot; La Niña; AMS in Seattle

Image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/204b7b5836feabf8f536d0226/images/2614bb99-66e8-4dcb-b0e6-62fec44ffdfe.jpg

December rainfall in California was pretty much upside down compared to recent months, with near normal rainfall in the north and above normal in the south. San Diego totaled 4.22 inches (276% of their December normal) while Los Angeles had 4.55" (195%). The northern third of the state was close to normal with just rain-shadowed San Jose lagging behind at 58%. [http://ggweather.com/calif/dec2016.htm]

Despite a couple colder than normal periods, only Eureka and Sacramento had monthly average minima of more than 2 degrees below normal. At the same time, LA and San Diego average monthly minima were more than 2 degrees above normal.
[http://ggweather.com/calif/dec2016.htm]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A snapshot of the first six months of the rainfall season (July 1 to June 30) shows totals well above normal at most locations, with the biggest gains against normal in the south, where Los Angeles and San Diego pushed to 138% and 158% of normal respectively. http://ggweather.com/water/

See also http://ggweather.com/seasonal_rain.htm which is updated daily, in the early evening.

With the potential for extensive rains in the next 10 days, I have updated the Rainfall, River and QPF Page .

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

La Niña's cooling in the tropical eastern Pacific may have bottomed and the weekly Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTAs) for the past month have averaged just -0.4.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Finally, I am headed for the 97th AMS Annual Meeting in Seattle later this month to present a paper of Heatstroke Deaths of Children in Vehicles. If you are also going to be in attendance, drop me an email and we can try to connect.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jan Null, CCM
Certified Consulting Meteorologist
Golden Gate Weather Services
Email: jnull@ggweather.com
Web: http://ggweather.com
Twitter: @ggweather

Jan Null

Jan Null has been a meteorologist in the San Francisco Bay Area for 50 years and is frequently seen on television and heard on the radio when weather is in the news. Twenty-six years ago he founded a consulting firm, Golden Gate Weather Services, after a 24-year career with the National Weather Service. Mr. Null is a Bay Area native, having grown up in Oakland and lived in the East Bay until 2006 when he moved to Saratoga. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Atmospheric Science from UC Davis in 1974 and his Master’s from San Jose State in 1992. Jan joined the National Weather Service in 1974 at the Weather Service Forecast Office in Redwood City. He worked as an operational forecaster throughout his career, including 13 years as Lead Forecaster. During his tenure at the NWS he also served as Meteorologist-in-Charge at the Center Weather Service Unit at the FAA’s Air Traffic Control Center in Fremont. He also did extensive research into the relationship between El Niño, La Niña and California rainfall and throughout his career he was a frequent media spokesperson for the agency. Jan has also been an Adjunct Professor and Lecturer at San Francisco and San Jose State Universities where he taught one evening a week for nearly 30 years. In 1998, Jan founded Golden Gate Weather Services, a consulting firm that specializes in forensic meteorology. He frequently serves as an expert witness in litigation where the weather is a factor. This often involves reconstructing past weather events or as his wife refers to it: “CSI Weather”. Mr. Null is also an internationally recognized expert of the sad topic of the heatstroke deaths of children in vehicles. After the death of a child left a vehicle in San Jose in 2001 he did a comprehensive study of vehicle temperatures that was ultimately published in Pediatrics in 2005. Since that time he has spoken at numerous national conferences and worked with a wide variety of child safety advocacy groups and agencies to raise awareness about the dozens of children who die from hyperthermia in hot vehicles each year. This data continues to be updated at NOHeatstroke.org. In his spare time he is a serious amateur photographer, specializing in wildlife and landscapes. Jan is married to Susan Hollis, a lifelong Saratoga resident and Realtor. He has two adult children in the Bay Area and the world’s most adorable 9-year old granddaughter and 4-year grandson.

Posted