Clear, Breezy and Sunny Saturday

Redding, Red Bluff, Chico

By Carlo Falco

POSTED: 7:14 AM Feb 23 2013

Sunny and breezy weather today, temperatures start on a warming trend.

We are back under dominating high pressure in Northern California.  That means lots of sunny skies and slowly warming temperatures through the week.  We start today with a few widely scattered showers in the mountains to the extreme north and west.  Most of these will stay in Siskiyou and Trinity Counties, but a few may make their way into northwest Shasta County and could give a few sprinkles here and there.  For the valley and the rest of the NorthState, it will be another gorgeous near-spring day.  Temperatures will rise into the low 60s today.  A passing weak system will kick the winds up slightly and could gust over 25mph at times. 

We aren’t expecting much of a change in the next several days.  High pressure will dominate the west coast keeping any rain firmly up to the north.  That’s good news for sun-lovers, but very bad news for our official rainfall totals.  Redding is currently 3.4 inches below average for this wet season, and has only received 1.51 inches of rain since January 1^st – which puts us 8.8 inches down on this calendar year.

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