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KEY MESSAGES

* Light winds and valley inversions will keep hazy skies and air quality reductions through this weekend with patchy freezing fog in some Sierra valleys.

* Dry weather prevails through this weekend into next week with above average daytime temperatures and slightly below average low temperatures.

DISCUSSION

* I will keep this discussion short because there is still not much to talk about at the moment. An amplified high pressure ridge remains parked over the eastern Pacific and the western US. Model ensembles keep this ridge pattern through at least Wednesday. By Thursday, the aforementioned ridge begins to retrograde west into Alaska while an upper low currently across eastern Canada expands westward as well. Toward the end of next week, the ensembles start to diverge in their solutions. Some show weak ridging while others show a trough dropping southward over the west. * Weather-wise, we'll hang on to our quiet pattern through Wednesday. Strong inversions will keep the overnight low temperatures below average high temperatures stay above average. The inversions will also maintain stratus and freezing fog over Mono Lake, and Martis Valley in the morning. By Thursday into next week, the pattern will change. Blended guidance has introduced a low 20% chance for precipitation. However, confidence is low. That's all I have for you today. -McKellar

AVIATION

VFR conditions are expected for area TAF sites going through the holiday weekend. The only exception is at KTRK where patchy and mainly shallow FZFG is expected through this morning around 14Z and then again tonight into Sunday morning. Haze in W.NV may lead to reduced slantwise visibilities. -078/McKellar

REV Watches/Warnings/Advisories

NV...None. CA...None.