Originally Posted by
sleddog
I would hazard a guess there is no weather location more carefully monitored in California than Diablo Canyon, near San Luis Obispo/Los Osos and Port San Luis harbor.
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant has 23 weather monitoring towers measuring temperature, wind direction and speed from a number of altitudes. Offshore, there is a Waverider buoy which records swell height and direction as well as water temperature. Near shore, there is a sonic radar system which records even more data about wind direction and speed along with a high frequency radar network which monitors ocean currents. While the information is used for plant operations, the primary function is public safety.
Last evening's winds at Diablo were reportedly 46, gusting 55. That's miles/hour. And converts to 38 knots, gusting 49. That's breeze.
There's snow in upper Carmel Valley and on the Cuesta Grade on Highway 101, at SLO.
http://www.tenera.com/weather/
That's good. Now we need some significant preciptation to make that REAL snow. Snow in Chachagua and back in the peaks of the Ventana wilderness is not all that unusual. When I was in high school, I remember some of the Valley guys going up and filling one of their mates pickup truck bed with snow and bringing it to school.
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