Northern California forecast: Changes to the stagnant weather pattern
Areas of dense fog are expected again this morning, but sunshine will gradually increase in the Valley as a series of storm systems changes the stagnant weather pattern.
CORTEZ KCRA THREE NEWS. NOW THE FOGGY CONDITIONS CONTINUE THIS MORNING. BOY, THEY WERE ROUGH. AS I WAS DRIVING THROUGH FOLSOM TODAY. AS WE TAKE A LIVE LOOK HERE AT OUR SUTTER HEALTH PARK SKY CAMERA, LET’S GO RIGHT NOW TO METEOROLOGIST TAMARA BERG. AND LET ME TAKE YOU WHERE THE SKIES ARE. CLEAR. TEO. THIS IS A LOOK FROM PLACERVILLE LIVE. LOOK HERE ALONG HIGHWAY 50 FROM SPRING STREET. I MYSELF, MY FAMILY, WE WENT TO PLACERVILLE BECAUSE WE WANTED TO SEE THE SUN AS WELL. MUCH LIKE THE FOLKS YOU JUST HEARD FROM IN THAT STORY FROM DENSON. TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW, LOWER 40S ACROSS THE VALLEY, TALKING MID 20S IN LAKE TAHOE AND STILL TALKING ABOUT SOME AREAS OF FOG. TWO AND A HALF MILE VISIBILITY RIGHT NOW IN SACRAMENTO INTO STOCKTON. SOME OF THE BETTER DROP OFFS AND VISIBILITY JUST UNDER A MILE HERE, YUBA CITY AND AROUND MARYSVILLE, ABOUT A HALF MILE HERE GOING THROUGH FAIRFIELD MILE AND A HALF RIGHT NOW AROUND MODESTO. SOME FREEZING FOG HAS DEVELOPED AS WELL AROUND SOUTH LAKE TAHOE AND EVEN TRUCKEE. THE SKIES ARE LOOKING A LITTLE HAZY, BUT WE’VE HAD BACK TO BACK WEEKENDS NOW WHERE WE’VE BEEN JUST STUCK IN THE 40S. YESTERDAY’S HIGH 45 DEGREES FOR PERSPECTIVE, AND WE’VE HAD TEN DAYS IN A ROW NOW WHERE TEMPERATURES HAVE STAYED BELOW NORMAL BY NEARLY TEN DEGREES. AND IN THOSE MID 40S, CHANGES UNDERWAY, THOUGH, AS WE’RE GOING TO TRANSITION INTO MORE ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE ALONG THE COAST, THERE IS A SYSTEM GETTING READY TO PREP TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA, AND IT’S GOING TO BE MOVING THROUGH, ESPECIALLY OVERNIGHT TUESDAY AND INTO WEDNESDAY. SO FOR TODAY, SUN AND CLOUDS EXPECTED MAY SEE MORE AREAS OF FOG DEVELOP FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING AND EVEN TOMORROW MORNING. WE MAY EVEN SQUEEZE OUT A COUPLE OF ISOLATED SHOWERS TO GO ALONG WITH THE MORNING DRIVE. BUT THE BETTER CHANCE WE’RE GOING TO SEE THOSE SHOWERS REALLY IGNITING AROUND THE AREA WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY. THIS IS WEDNESDAY MORNING, FUTURECAST 5 A.M. SEE THE WEST SLOPE HERE. REALLY GETTING SOME GOOD SOAKING RAIN. UNFORTUNATELY IT’S NOT GOING TO BE SNOW. SNOW LEVELS ARE GOING TO BE HIGH. IT’S GOING TO BE A WARMER SYSTEM. SO ANTICIPATE THAT NOT ONLY ARE TEMPERATURES GOING TO GO UP AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE WEEK, WE’RE ALSO GOING TO BE SQUEEZING OUT A LITTLE BIT OF RAIN ACROSS THE REGION. AND BY LITTLE I MEAN LITTLE. THIS IS WEDNESDAY. AS YOU LOOK AT THE PRECIPITATION POSSIBILITY, COUPLE ONE HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH HERE IN THE VALLEY. BETTER CHANCE ON THE WEST SLOPE THERE. PLACERVILLE AND AUBURN MAY EVEN SEE AS MUCH AS MAYBE A HALF AN INCH IN THOSE SPOTS. SO CHANGES UNDERWAY. THE GOOD NEWS IS, WHEN WE HAVE THE DISRUPTED ATMOSPHERE, THAT RADIATION FOG OR TULE FOG DOESN’T GET A GREAT CHANCE TO SET UP. SO I THINK THAT REALLY TOMORROW AND INTO WEDNESDAY, TEO BETTER CHANCE OF SEEING A LITTLE MORE SUN BETWEEN SOME OF THE MID AND HIGH CLOUDS THAT WILL WORK IN AND LOOK AT THE TEMPERATURE. WEDNESDAY IS HIGH, 62 DEGREES. LOOK AT THAT. WE HAVE NOT SEEN THAT SINCE REALLY EARLIER INTO THE START OF DECEMBER. SO THE REST OF THE WEEK ALSO IS GOING TO BE PRETTY UNSETTLED. SO THERE’S CHANCES OF BIGGER STORM SYSTEMS SETTING UP NEXT WEEK AND. NEXT WEEKEND, HOPEFULLY
Northern California forecast: Changes to the stagnant weather pattern
Areas of dense fog are expected again this morning, but sunshine will gradually increase in the Valley as a series of storm systems changes the stagnant weather pattern.
Updated: 4:43 AM PST Dec 15, 2025
Areas of dense patchy fog are likely again for this morning’s commute. They Valley will see cloudy skies again, but some hints of afternoon sunshine are possible and temperatures will be slightly warmer with highs in the low to mid 50s! Low clouds may thin out a bit more Tuesday.A storm system brings rain chances in by Wednesday with scattered showers and light accumulations. Snow levels will be above 8,000 ft. Another system arrives Friday night into Saturday brining more chances for rain and Sierra snow through the the weekend.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Areas of dense patchy fog are likely again for this morning’s commute. They Valley will see cloudy skies again, but some hints of afternoon sunshine are possible and temperatures will be slightly warmer with highs in the low to mid 50s!
Low clouds may thin out a bit more Tuesday.
A storm system brings rain chances in by Wednesday with scattered showers and light accumulations. Snow levels will be above 8,000 ft.
Another system arrives Friday night into Saturday brining more chances for rain and Sierra snow through the the weekend.