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PZZ530 San Pablo Bay, Suisun Bay, The West Delta And The San Francisco Bay North Of The Bay Bridge- 835 Am Pdt Wed Apr 24 2024
Today - SW winds 5 to 10 knots - .increasing to 10 to 15 knots this afternoon. A slight chance of very light drizzle this morning. Tonight - W winds 10 to 15 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Thu - W winds 15 to 20 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Thu night - W winds 10 to 20 knots with gusts up to 30 knots. Fri - W winds 10 to 20 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Fri night - W winds 10 to 20 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Sat - W winds 10 to 15 knots with gusts up to 25 knots. Sun - W winds 10 to 15 knots.

PZZ500 835 Am Pdt Wed Apr 24 2024
Synopsis for the central california coast and bays including the Monterey bay - Greater farallones - .and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries - .
winds will be gentle to moderate across the waters through this afternoon as a low pressure system exits to the east. Tonight and tomorrow, winds will prevail as a moderate northwesterly breeze. A cold front will traverse across the region on Friday, bringing strong and gusty northwesterly winds with gale force gusts likely through the weekend. Moderate period northwesterly swell will continue to move through the waters through Saturday.

FXUS66 KSTO 241010 AFDSTO

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Sacramento CA 310 AM PDT Wed Apr 24 2024

Synopsis
Cool and unsettled weather this week. A chance for afternoon showers and thunderstorms over the mountains today. Precipitation chances increase Thursday and Friday as a weather system moves through, best chances in the foothills and mountains.

Discussion
Mostly cloudy skies cover NorCal early this morning as the large closed low to our southwest moves toward SoCal. The large surface pressure difference from 24 hours ago has balanced out somewhat as cooling has spread across most of the region. Correspondingly, onshore winds are much lighter this morning with Travis AFB reporting under 10 kts.

Today will be an in-between systems day for NorCal as upstream short-wave energy approaches from the Gulf of Alaska and the closed low moves into SoCal before heading east to generate the next round of severe weather in the Plains on Thursday and Friday.

Partly to mostly cloudy skies are expected today with cool temperatures - similar to Tuesday's. Afternoon thunderstorm chances are expected to be limited to the northern mountains and the Sierra south of Highway 50.

The next round of more widespread showers for NorCal is expected later on Thursday into Friday as short-wave energy slides southward behind the departing SoCal low. It's still looking like a relatively low-impact system with QPF of less than 0.10" in the valley, and generally around 0.50" or less over the mountains. A few inches of snowfall accumulation will be possible over the higher elevations (snow levels above 6-7k ft) in the Sierra, but travel impacts will likely be minimal.

A return to dry weather with gradually milder temperatures is expected to begin Saturday as riding from the eastern Pacific builds into the region.

.EXTENDED DISCUSSION (Sunday THROUGH Wednesday)...
Dry weather Sunday as weak short wave ridging moves through interior NorCal. Upper troughing then resides off the West Coast through midweek associated with upper low west of VRISL. This will result in onshore flow with temperatures gradually trending down through midweek. Series of vort maxes progged across interior NorCal Wednesday with NBM showing slight chance POPs over the mountains of Shasta and Plumas counties.

AVIATION
VFR conditions over interior NorCal next 24 hrs exc isolated MVFR/IFR possible over mtns in showers. Sfc wind mainly below 12 kts except vcnty of Delta SWly sust wind up to 18 kts possible aft 00z Thu.

STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
None.

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Benicia
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Wed -- 01:58 AM PDT     5.40 feet High Tide
Wed -- 06:20 AM PDT     Sunrise
Wed -- 06:31 AM PDT     Moonset
Wed -- 09:20 AM PDT     -0.14 feet Low Tide
Wed -- 03:44 PM PDT     3.84 feet High Tide
Wed -- 07:53 PM PDT     Sunset
Wed -- 08:22 PM PDT     1.91 feet Low Tide
Wed -- 09:03 PM PDT     Moonrise
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Benicia, Carquinez Strait, California, Tide feet

Carquinez Strait
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Wed -- 12:30 AM PDT     2.25 knots Max Flood
Wed -- 03:37 AM PDT     -0.00 knots Slack
Wed -- 06:20 AM PDT     Sunrise
Wed -- 06:31 AM PDT     Moonset
Wed -- 07:18 AM PDT     -2.72 knots Max Ebb
Wed -- 11:24 AM PDT     0.00 knots Slack
Wed -- 02:13 PM PDT     1.60 knots Max Flood
Wed -- 05:20 PM PDT     -0.00 knots Slack
Wed -- 07:40 PM PDT     -1.10 knots Max Ebb
Wed -- 07:53 PM PDT     Sunset
Wed -- 09:03 PM PDT     Moonrise
Wed -- 10:03 PM PDT     0.00 knots Slack
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Carquinez Strait, California Current, knots

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