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KEY MESSAGES

- Dry with low clouds and seasonable high temperatures in the Valley today.

- Next system tonight and Wednesday brings light snow to Sierra above 5000 feet; light foothill rain showers.

- Dry weather with areas of morning fog and clouds starting again late week.

..Friday and Beyond

North winds on the backside of the weak trough will develop, although nothing impactful for our area is in the forecast. The bigger story will be the cold overnight temperatures and the continuation of foggy conditions. Some minor tweaks to the fog forecast were made, based on continued confidence of upper level ridging building in and keeping air somewhat stagnant this weekend and beyond. While it is still too early to say fog will stick around all day, our confidence in at least foggy overnight and morning skies is increasing. The Climate Prediction Center keeps us at high chances for continued dry weather into next week, as well as high confidence in ensemble members keeping ridging aloft as our dominant synoptic feature.

AVIATION

Mainly VFR conditions today with isolated MVFR/IFR/LIFR conditions due to low clouds developing this afternoon. Conditions should improve area wide as low clouds burn off. Widespread IFR/LIFR conditions 11z Wednesday in the central/southern Sacramento Valley and northern San Joaquin Valley as FG develops. Generally light surface winds below 12 knots in Valley next 24 hours.

STO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

None.