{"id":109714,"date":"2025-12-26T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109714\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:08:07","slug":"fresno-rain-isnt-done-forecast-calls-for-thunderstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109714\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Rain Isn&#8217;t Done. Forecast Calls for Thunderstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno won\u2019t start drying out yet, as the National Weather Service predicts an 80% chance of showers and possible thunderstorms on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast also includes two longshots: a less than 5% chance of damaging winds and a less than 2% probability of a tornado.<\/p>\n<p>However, NWS Hanford notes that \u201cany percent chance of a tornado or damaging winds is very unusual in the Central Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, snow will continue to fall throughout the Sierra at elevations of 5,000 feet and higher through the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom Declares State of Emergency in Six Counties<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Christmas week storms battering California have prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Shasta counties.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom directed state agencies to pre-deploy emergency response resources across the state, including 55 fire engines, 10 swift-water rescue teams, five hand crews, five dozers, four loaders, three helicopters, an incident management team, an Urban Search and Rescue Team, and over 300 personnel to support local response efforts.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-224743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Thunderstorm-Outlook.jpg\" alt=\"Image of NWS Hanford Thunderstorm Outlook for Dec. 26, 2025, for Central California \" width=\"680\" height=\"383\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-224744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Winter-storm-warning-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Image of NWS Winter Storm Warning Dec. 26, 2025.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Fresno Water Season Rainfall Is 211% of Normal<\/p>\n<p>Fresno received 1.42 inches of rain on Christmas Eve \u2014 more than enough to flood underpasses and contribute to fender-bender collisions.<\/p>\n<p>That deluge pushed Fresno\u2019s rainfall for the 2025-26 water season to 5.92 inches and 211% of normal, according to NWS records. The city averages 10.99 inches per water season, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 of the following year.<\/p>\n<p>A Wet New Year\u2019s Holiday?<\/p>\n<p>The NWS forecast for Saturday through Monday calls for mostly sunny skies during the day with highs in the low 50s and high 40s. Overnight lows could drop to the high 30s.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a 20% to 30% chance of rain New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>California Major Reservoir Totals<\/p>\n<p>View the levels of the state\u2019s major reservoirs <a href=\"https:\/\/cdec.water.ca.gov\/resapp\/RescondMain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno won\u2019t start drying out yet, as the National Weather Service predicts an 80% chance of showers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-109714","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\/109714","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=109714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}