{"id":116383,"date":"2026-01-01T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116383\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:50:14","slug":"rain-ushers-in-the-new-year-for-fresno-when-will-it-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116383\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Ushers in the New Year for Fresno. When Will It End?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Year\u2019s Day greeted Fresno with a half-inch of rain Thursday morning and more precipitation is in the National Weather Service forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Showers are expected to continue through the weekend accompanied by the potential for thunderstorms on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, NWS Hanford said.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast anticipates Sunday for the heaviest rainfall with between a half-inch and an inch adding to Fresno\u2019s wet winter.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a 20% chance of rain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>View the NWS 7-day forecast for Fresno <a href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?CityName=Fresno&amp;state=CA&amp;site=HNX&amp;textField1=36.7478&amp;textField2=-119.771&amp;e=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-225419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Excerssive-Rainfall-NWS.jpg\" alt=\"NWS Hanford Excessive Rainfall Warning for Central California Dec. 31-Jan. 2, 2026\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Flood Watch, Winter Weather Advisory<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NWS is continuing its Flood Watch to 10 p.m. Thursday for southern and eastern Kern County. NWS also has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for the Sierra Nevada above 6,000 feet from Yosemite to Kings Canyon nationals parks. The advisory is for early Saturday through early Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Winter Weather Advisory could be extended or upgraded to a warning because a new band of precipitation is expected later Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That storm will bring \u201csignificant snow above 6,000 feet for much of the Sierra Nevada, including to Tulare County,\u201d NWS Hanford said in its New Year\u2019s Day morning discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The dense fog that has enveloped the San Joaquin Valley this winter \u201cwill continue to be an issue as well,\u201d NWS Hanford said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Day greeted Fresno with a half-inch of rain Thursday morning and more precipitation is in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-116383","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\/116383","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=116383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}