live satellite weather northern california january 5 2017

Palo Alto, otherwise known as the 'Concrete Ship,' was tossed and broken up by high waves in the bay in January. The previous record was 32.8 feet in 2008. Monterey Bay recorded the largest waves it has seen in 30 years with the swell reaching 34.12 feet at one point. Monterey Bay sees 30-foot-high swell in January 2017 'Daytime temps have been in the low 30s overnight in the 20s, other morning it was 26 degrees when I came into work at 7:30.' Show More Show Less 11 of72 'We've had so much snow, and now we're getting the freezing conditions,' Gediman said. Yosemite National Park spokesperson Scott Gediman said the conditions were perfect for frazil ice throughout January. Because it's moving turbulently down the creek, it never freezes solid. The soft, amorphous ice that's formed by the accumulation of ice crystals in water is known as frazil ice. The swollen waterway collected fallen snow at the top of Yosemite Falls and then dropped the slush 2,425 feet down the waterfall into the pool below before it continues to flow down the creek. Yosemite Creek operated a bit like a Slurpee machine in late January. Getty Show More Show Lessĩ of72 10 of72 Slurpee-like frazil ice flows down Yosemite Creek, closes trail in January 2017 January 2017 was the sixth-wettest for Downtown San Francisco. The gauge recorded 32.74 inches in January, breaking the previous record of 32.41 inches set in 1940. Outside the Bay Area in nearby Santa Cruz County, Ben Lomond also saw its wettest start to the year. The Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton in San Jose saw 14.78 inches, marking its wettest January in its recorded history that goes back 120 years.

'When we look at the Northern Sierra, we're seeing numbers like we did during the 1983 El Niño winter.' (Photo: A car is seen buried in snow at Squaw Ski Resort in North Lake Tahoe, California on January 27, 2017.) JOSH EDELSON/JOSH EDELSON / SAN FRANCISCO CHR Show More Show Less 8 of72 Mount Hamilton in San Jose sees wettest January in recorded historyīack-to-back storms pummeled Northern California in January, but despite the downpours, only one rainfall record was broken among the 62 gauges spread throughout the area. 'This winter is just pretty much crushing a lot of records we've had around the region,' said Chris Smallcomb, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Reno office. The Northern Sierra–Trinity snowpack was 158 percent of average.

23 the snowpack above 6,000 feet was around 10 feet and up to 20 feet at the highest peaks. Storms pummeled the Sierra at the start of the year and by Jan. 6 of72 7 of72 Storms dump record-breaking snow on Tahoe in January 2017

Live satellite weather northern california january 5 2017