{"id":101466,"date":"2025-12-19T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101466\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:13:08","slug":"fresno-can-expect-sprinkles-followed-by-a-wet-christmas-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101466\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Can Expect Sprinkles Followed by a Wet Christmas Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a chance Fresno could see some rain beginning Friday afternoon and continuing through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But any raindrops falling on our heads will be just a taste of an expected wet Christmas week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfidence continues to increase for totals of at least two inches of rainfall in the San Joaquin Valley and several inches for the Sierra Nevada foothills\u201d beginning next Tuesday and lasting until at least Christmas Day, says the National Weather Service in Hanford.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful Pineapple Express storm targeting Southern California is expected to drench the Valley and deliver snow to the Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSnow levels will be above 8,000 feet until at least Monday and lower to about 7,000 feet for Tuesday onward,\u201d NWS Hanford said in its Friday morning forecast discussion. \u201cExact timing of precipitation for next week remains uncertain, but it appears we are in for an active period for quite some time once it begins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Climate Prediction Center says that the 6-to-10-day outlook indicates a 70-80% chance for above average precipitation for the Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rlic_tareqanwar_link\">Related Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2025\/11\/17\/slow-moving-storm-pushes-fresno-rainfall-to-353-of-normal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slow-Moving Storm Pushes Fresno Rainfall to 353% of Normal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-224079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/610prcp.new_-1024x791.gif\" alt=\"Image of the Climate Prediction Center 6-10 Day Outlook for Precipitation. Various shades of green denote rain and snow\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Closer Look at the Valley Forecast<\/p>\n<p>NWS Hanford says to expect fog and low clouds tonight, with about a 40 percent chance of dense fog forming after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Rain could begin for Fresno County northward this afternoon, especially in Merced County and Yosemite National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The highest probability of rain on Saturday and Sunday will be in the Valley\u2019s northern reaches.<\/p>\n<p>Precipitation will be light to moderate, with the highest amounts projected near Yosemite this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>As for next week, NWS is projecting a 30% chance of rain for Fresno on Monday. The forecast calls for a 90% chance Tuesday night and Wednesday, and 80%, with wind gusts up to 15 mph, on Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a chance Fresno could see some rain beginning Friday afternoon and continuing through Sunday. But any raindrops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-101466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}