A strong storm will move through the North State Thursday night, bringing gusty winds and heavy rain... and another storm is headed our direction!

Thursday nights' storm looks powerful.  It's tapping into decent subtropical moisture, and has good dynamics (energy to squeeze the water from the storm), so we're looking at close to an inch of rain in the Valley overnight.  Low pressure approaching the Oregon coastline is moderately deep, so expect winds to gust to near 35 mph in the Valley... with higher gusts over the mountain ridgetops.  Snow levels in the Trinity Alps, Siskiyous and Cascades will drop to near 3000', while staying a bit higher in the Sierra... around 3500'.  The main band of moisture from this storm should be south of the North State by Friday, so we'll see only a few lingering showers over our area, and winds should be much quieter as well as low pressure moves into Canada.

Storm #2 arrives Friday night, and will last into Saturday.  It doesn't look as wet... but should still give us a good soak.  Not much low pressure with this storm, so not much wind on tap.  Little change in snow levels.

The sun will come out... Sunday!  Both Sunday and Monday look nice.  A weak disturbance will drop southward from the Pacific Northwest Tuesday, and give us a few showers Tuesday evening.  The rest of the week looks quiet.

Kris