South Ops Weather - 2022

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A closed upper level low is cutting off from the main jet stream off of the coast of Oregon. This low will quickly drop south through Wednesday and cut off the coast of CA.

Monsoonal moisture will work it’s way into Southern CA Tuesday night. On the leading edge of the deep moisture, there will likely be an inverted V profile for possible dry lightning strikes. As the moisture plume deepens the threat will diminish by Wednesday afternoon except perhaps far Northern LA County.

PWV may actually approach the upper bound of recorded data for this date in the CA bight, so there may be heavy precipitation with any thunderstorms that do form.

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Thunderstorms are possible midweek across the Southern Sierra and Kern Desert.

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Getting a little lightning near Escondido now.
https://www.weather.gov/zse/SatRad?speed=0.3&mins=10&count=7&lt=33.5042&ln=-117.0007&zm=9&rad=1&ltg=1&sat=0&sig=0&fc=1&hover=1&size=0&mobile&

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Heavy lighting on the ANF

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Any new starts or wet system.

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everything ive seen is that its dry but then I am not 100% very well could be wet

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For reference there is over 800 strikes in some areas that it is striking I am seeing rain predicted after sun up but low chances of 11 and 10% for now but for the total area I am not sure

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Also per national weather service los angels some wet storms are possible with rain being generally under a quarter inch total with wind gusts up to 60 mph

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There was brief periods of heavy precipitation, mostly moderate. The Bobcat Fire burn scar took the brunt of it, but still plenty of strikes outside of the burn scar. We will see what the morning recon flight finds.

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TUU and FKU getting hammered right now and it doesn’t look like much rain with this.
https://radar.weather.gov/?settings=v1_eyJhZ2VuZGEiOnsiaWQiOiJsb2NhbCIsImNlbnRlciI6Wy0xMTkuNjMyLDM2LjMxNV0sImxvY2F0aW9uIjpudWxsLCJ6b29tIjo4LCJmaWx0ZXIiOm51bGwsImxheWVyIjoiY3JlZiIsInN0YXRpb24iOiJLSE5YIn0sImFuaW1hdGluZyI6ZmFsc2UsImJhc2UiOiJzdGFuZGFyZCIsImFydGNjIjpmYWxzZSwiY291bnR5IjpmYWxzZSwiY3dhIjpmYWxzZSwicmZjIjpmYWxzZSwic3RhdGUiOmZhbHNlLCJtZW51Ijp0cnVlLCJzaG9ydEZ1c2VkT25seSI6dHJ1ZSwib3BhY2l0eSI6eyJhbGVydHMiOjAuOCwibG9jYWwiOjAuNiwibG9jYWxTdGF0aW9ucyI6MC44LCJuYXRpb25hbCI6MC42fX0%3D#/

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Two fires reported this morning on ANF

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Some impressive looking convection and plenty of lightning this morning. Not much rain that I can see based on the RAWS sites. One site had .1" of rain but the fuel moisture didn’t budge.

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