Issued by The National Weather Service
Sacramento, CA
5:34 am PDT, Thu., Apr. 2, 2009
... COLDER AND UNSETTLED WEATHER MAY DEVELOP EARLY NEXT WEEK...
COLD LOW PRESSURE CURRENTLY NEAR ALASKA WILL APPROACH CALIFORNIA BY THE END OF THIS WEEKEND. COLDER AND SHOWERY WEATHER MAY DEVELOP MONDAY AND CONTINUE INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. SNOW AND STRONG WINDS COULD IMPACT TRAVEL IN THE MOUNTAINS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN THE VALLEYS. TEMPERATURES COULD BE 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. THERE IS SOME FORECAST UNCERTAINTY AS TO HOW FAST THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE INLAND... HOWEVER IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY LIKELY THAT A PERIOD OF UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL DEVELOP NEXT WEEK.
Yeah we’ve had a lot of late snow in the Sacramento area foothills this year. I got stuck up in Grass Valley just a few weeks ago in a late afternoon storm and had to buy some chains. Al Gore must have been in town.
It hasn’t made an appearance in Alabama either!