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PZZ540 Coastal Waters From Point Arena To Point Reyes California Out To 10 Nm- 853 Am Pdt Sat May 18 2024
.small craft advisory in effect from 3 pm pdt this afternoon through late tonight - ..gale warning in effect from late tonight through late Sunday night - .
Today - SE wind 5 to 10 kt, veering to W early this afternoon, then becoming nw 15 to 20 kt late. Seas 6 to 8 ft. Wave detail: nw 7 ft at 10 seconds and sw 2 ft at 19 seconds. Patchy fog this morning. Tonight - NW wind 15 to 20 kt, rising to 20 to 25 kt after midnight. Seas 8 to 11 ft. Wave detail: nw 5 ft at 6 seconds, nw 9 ft at 10 seconds and sw 3 ft at 18 seconds. Sun - NW wind 20 to 25 kt, rising to 25 to 30 kt in the afternoon. Seas 8 to 11 ft. Wave detail: nw 8 ft at 10 seconds and sw 3 ft at 18 seconds. Sun night - NW wind 25 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt. Seas 11 to 13 ft, subsiding to 9 to 11 ft after midnight. Wave detail: nw 10 ft at 10 seconds and sw 3 ft at 17 seconds. Mon - NW wind 15 to 20 kt, rising to 20 to 25 kt in the afternoon. Seas 6 to 8 ft, building to 7 to 10 ft in the afternoon. Wave detail: nw 5 ft at 6 seconds, nw 8 ft at 11 seconds and sw 3 ft at 17 seconds. Mon night - NW wind 20 to 25 kt, easing to 15 to 20 kt after midnight. Seas 9 to 12 ft, subsiding to 8 to 10 ft after midnight. Wave detail: nw 5 ft at 8 seconds, nw 10 ft at 11 seconds and sw 3 ft at 17 seconds. Tue - NW wind 15 to 20 kt. Seas 6 to 9 ft. Tue night - NW wind 20 to 25 kt. Seas 8 to 11 ft. Wed - NW wind 20 to 25 kt. Seas 7 to 10 ft. Wed night - NW wind 25 to 30 kt, easing to 20 to 25 kt after midnight. Seas 9 to 13 ft.

PZZ500 853 Am Pdt Sat May 18 2024
Synopsis for the central california coast and bays including the Monterey bay - Greater farallones - .and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries - .
winds out of the north strengthen to become strong and slowly spread over the outer waters through the weekend. These stronger winds are expected to last through most of the upcoming work week. Gale force gusts build in the far northern waters today and are expected to last through at least Monday. Expect hazardous conditions and steeper wind waves from these building winds.

FXUS66 KSTO 181033 AAA AFDSTO

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Sacramento CA 130 AM PDT Sat May 18 2024

SYNOPSIS
Seasonable temperatures will continue through the weekend and into early next week. Mostly sunny and dry conditions with periods of breezy winds expected through the next 7 days. Isolated showers and thunderstorms over high Sierra south of Highway 50 today.

DISCUSSION
Synoptically, west-southwest flow will continue to keep onshore winds through Saturday morning. Latest GOES-18 Nighttime Microphysics RGB indicates the marine low stratus deck is pushing inland into the Delta region. Hires guidance is not handling current trends well. Based on current 20-30 mph Delta winds and already apparent intrusion of stratus deck, continued eastward push of stratus looks probable with potentially similar coverage by sunrise to what was observed yesterday with areas around or just west of the Greater Sacramento Metro.

Besides possible morning stratus, expect a mostly clear Saturday with continued breezy onshore winds through Saturday night, though not as strong as Friday night.

Only other weather of note will be the isolated shower and thunderstorm chances along the Sierra crest mainly south of Highway 50 this afternoon- evening where NBM has 15-30% probabilities of thunderstorms. Best chances will be in southeastern Tuolumne County today where hires indicates decent instability will develop with little/minimal CIN. No significant forcing besides the mountains themselves, so main impacts expected with any thunderstorm will be brief heavy rain, locally gusty winds, lightning, and small hail with the stronger updrafts. Given west- southwesterly flow aloft and mean winds around 10 knots, thunderstorms will drift eastward after forming.

Throughout the day today, a trough from the British Columbia will dig into the Great Basin region, which will shift a more westerly flow to a northwesterly flow overhead tonight-Sunday. As this trough phases with a closed upper-low in SoCal Monday, pressure gradients across NorCal will increase, producing another breezy north wind day. Currently the NBM has a 50-75% probability of gusts greater than 34 knots (~40 mph) in the usual north wind prone area in the western Sacramento Valley along the I-5 corridor. Current forecasts continue to keep gusts only to around 25-30 knots, but given the probabilities of higher winds, winds may increase as we get closer.

Per usual with north wind days, minimum afternoon RH's will decline, with widespread less than 15% RH values in the Sacramento Valley. Temperatures will be mild, but breezy winds and low RH's will lead to locally elevated fire weather conditions Monday.

Northerly flow will weaken Tuesday, allowing temperatures to increase but winds to decrease. Tuesday appears to be the warmest day in the next 7 days, with highs in the mid 80s to low 90s across the Valley/Delta and upper 60s to low 80s in the Foothills/Mountains.

//Peters

.EXTENDED DISCUSSION (Wednesday THROUGH Saturday)...
Series of upper lows progged to move through the PacNW during the extended forecast period. Associated upper troughing will extend into NorCal. Models differ with timing, track, and strength of lows leading to some forecast uncertainty with precipitation potential. NBM shows some showers chances over our northern and eastern foothills/mountains Friday and Saturday afternoon. High temperatures forecast to cool through the extended period, returning to near normal Friday, and slightly below normal Saturday.

AVIATION
VFR conditions over interior NorCal next 24 hrs except areas MVFR/IFR in stratus vcnty of Delta til 18z and locally in Sac Vly til 17z. In Central Vly, sfc wind mainly at or below 12 kts til 00z Sat, then areas sfc wind up to 20 kts. Vcnty Delta SWly sfc wind 15- 25 kts with lcl gusts to 35 kts. Isolated -shra/-tsra possible over SierNev, S of Hwy 50 btwn 19z-02z.

STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
None.

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Fort Ross
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Sat -- 02:46 AM PDT     1.31 feet Low Tide
Sat -- 03:32 AM PDT     Moonset
Sat -- 05:58 AM PDT     Sunrise
Sat -- 08:17 AM PDT     3.68 feet High Tide
Sat -- 02:15 PM PDT     1.25 feet Low Tide
Sat -- 03:54 PM PDT     Moonrise
Sat -- 08:21 PM PDT     Sunset
Sat -- 08:41 PM PDT     5.06 feet High Tide
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Salt Point
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Sat -- 12:28 AM PDT     -0.82 knots Max Ebb
Sat -- 03:32 AM PDT     Moonset
Sat -- 04:05 AM PDT     0.00 knots Slack
Sat -- 05:58 AM PDT     Sunrise
Sat -- 07:00 AM PDT     0.68 knots Max Flood
Sat -- 09:39 AM PDT     -0.00 knots Slack
Sat -- 12:26 PM PDT     -0.74 knots Max Ebb
Sat -- 03:54 PM PDT     Moonrise
Sat -- 04:00 PM PDT     0.00 knots Slack
Sat -- 07:02 PM PDT     0.80 knots Max Flood
Sat -- 08:21 PM PDT     Sunset
Sat -- 09:53 PM PDT     -0.00 knots Slack
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