KBAK Weather

5/19/2013

Currently

73°F

Clear

Humidity: 38%

Pressure: 30.07 in

10 Day Forecast

Sunday Sunny Day: 80° Night: 56°

Monday Sunny Day: 84° Night: 60°

Tuesday Sunny Day: 91° Night: 62°

Wednesday Sunny Day: 93° Night: 64°

Thursday Partly Cloudy Day: 83° Night: 61°

Friday Partly Cloudy Day: 82° Night: 58°

Saturday Partly Cloudy Day: 79° Night: 56°

Sunday Sunny Day: 82° Night: 58°

Monday Sunny Day: 85° Night: 59°

Tuesday Sunny Day: 88° Night: 60°

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A Delightful Weekend Weatherwise

Clouds were pervasive overnight and through the mid-morning time frame on Friday. Winds were brisk in the Kern County mountains and desert areas. But the trough of low pressure which brought the cooler weather has now moved to the east. Skies cleared through the afternoon revealing sunshine and mild temperatures. Highs rose into the upper 70s and low 80s on Friday. It should be clear and cool overnight leading to an invigorating low on Saturday morning in the mid 50s. But the anticipated warming trend is set to start this weekend with low to mid 80s both days. Our very comfortable weather has scored an A+ on the Muziometer in the south valley on Saturday. Another exceptionally beautiful day is forecast for Sunday with highs in the mid 80s. It turns hot for Monday and Tuesday with 90s predicted. But the hot weather will be brief, as another deep low pressure area moves southeast to a position along the west coast. That will moderate temperatures and bring a few clouds to California. Highs should sharply drop back to the mid 80s by Wednesday and upper 70s by next Friday. A gradual warming trend will then develop for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Temperatures next weekend will again rise through the 80s. Memorial Day itself looks like a particularly nice beginning to the summer season with highs in the upper 80s under sunny skies.

5-17-13 6:22 pm Chief Meteorologist MILES MUZIO

So far today...

High: 73°

Precip: 0.00"

Low: 59°

Normal

Record

84°

101° (1954)

58°

38° (1893)

Sunrise

5:49am

Sunset

7:57pm

Precipitation

Normal

Saturday

Trace

0.00"

This Month

0.05"

0.13"

Since 1/1

2.36"

4.26"

Since 10/1

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Year of the Comet: completely unique type of cosmic entity (Video)

By Miles Muzio Published: Apr 29, 2013 at 9:29 PM PDT Last Updated: May 8, 2013 at 12:59 PM PDT

The skies lit up over Russia back in February. It was frightening, and most everyone has seen various videos from Chelyabinsk, in the Ural region of southwestern Russia. But on a recent trip to a junior college in central California, I found many students didn’t know the difference between an event like the one in Russia and a comet. Word of a big comet later this year brought initial trepidation that it might hit them. No doubt, a teachable moment has arrived in 2013 regarding sights we can all see in the skies.

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By Miles Muzio Published: Mar 26, 2013 at 9:31 PM PDT

Weather conditions have always been critical to agriculture, transportation and commerce. Through the ages while humanity has engaged to better understanding the atmosphere, college courses in meteorology have appeared only recently. Through its scientific infancy, weather observation and forecasting was conducted by hobbyists with a bent toward general science. US military weather records were compiled by the surgeon corps at remote outposts for much of the 19th century. When the US Weather Bureau was formed in 1890 as a civilian operation within the Agriculture Department, a succession of academics was chosen to lead it. The Bureau’s first chief was Professor Mark W. Harrington from the University of Michigan. He held a Master’s Degree in mathematics and astronomy, continuing to teach after his bureaucratic tenure. Meantime, many of the modern constructs of atmospheric science were being developed by Norwegians early in the 20th century. For the first several decades that followed, these concepts were included in syllabi of several colleges and universities in geology or earth science courses.

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By Miles Muzio Published: Feb 27, 2013 at 10:27 PM PDT

February is ending on a dry and mild note. March will come in like a lamb.

WeatherWhys Blog Numerical Weather Prediction

By Miles Muzio Published: Feb 26, 2013 at 8:59 PM PDT

The importance of knowing what the weather will be has been a practical necessity of agriculture and transportation for thousands of years. Simply viewing the sky to see what was coming in the next 15-30 minutes pushed the envelope of capability for most of history. But our relentless march toward the computer predictions of today was slow to begin. All the elements of what now makes up a sophisticated suite of models had to first realize a vast infrastructure that included several disparate branches of science and technology.

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