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Current Alerts for Kaweah, CA: Cold Weather Advisory

1. Air Quality Alert for: Imperial County Southwest; Chuckwalla Mountains; Imperial County Southeast; Imperial County West; Imperial Valley

2. Cold Weather Advisory for: East Bay Hills

3. Cold Weather Advisory for: Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra; Fresno-Tulare Lower Sierra; South End of the Lower Sierra; Yosemite NP outside of the valley; San Joaquin River Canyon; Upper San Joaquin River; Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge; Kings Canyon NP; Grant Grove Area; Sequoia NP; South End of the Upper Sierra

4. Cold Weather Advisory for: North Bay Interior Mountains; North Bay Interior Valleys; East Bay Interior Valleys; Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose; Northern Salinas Valley/Hollister Valley and Carmel Valley

5. Cold Weather Advisory for: Western Plumas County/Lassen Park; West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada

6. Cold Weather Advisory for: Yosemite Valley

7. Extreme Cold Warning for: Eastern Santa Clara Hills; Southern Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco and Lake San Antonio; Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest; Mountains Of San Benito County And Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Park

8. Freeze Warning for: Cuyama Valley; Western Antelope Valley Foothills; Eastern Antelope Valley Foothills

9. Freeze Warning for: Los Banos - Dos Palos; Merced - Madera - Mendota; Planada - Le Grand - Snelling; Coalinga - Avenal; West Side of Fresno and Kings Counties; Caruthers - San Joaquin - Selma; Fresno-Clovis; Buttonwillow - Lost Hills - I5; Delano-Wasco-Shafter; Hanford - Corcoran - Lemoore; Visalia - Porterville - Reedley; Bakersfield; Southeast San Joaquin Valley; South End San Joaquin Valley

10. Frost Advisory for: Santa Clarita Valley; Ojai Valley; Central Ventura County Valleys; Calabasas and Agoura Hills; Western San Fernando Valley; Southeastern Ventura County Valleys; Santa Susana Mountains

11. High Wind Warning for: Coastal Del Norte

12. High Wind Warning for: Del Norte Interior; Southwestern Humboldt; Northern Humboldt Interior; Southern Humboldt Interior

13. Hydrologic Outlook for: Siskiyou, CA; Coos, OR; Curry, OR; Josephine, OR

14. Wind Advisory for: Central Siskiyou County

15. Wind Advisory for: Mendocino Coast; Northwestern Mendocino Interior; Southwestern Mendocino Interior

16. Wind Advisory for: Northern Humboldt Coast

17. Winter Storm Warning for: Northern Trinity

18. Winter Storm Warning for: Western Siskiyou County; South Central Siskiyou County; North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County

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Weather Topic: What is Sleet?

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Sleet Next Topic: Snow

Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones, and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.

The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is freezing rain.

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Weather Topic: What are Stratocumulus Clouds?

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Next Topic: Stratus Clouds

Stratocumulus clouds are similar to altocumulus clouds in their fluffy appearance, but have a slightly darker shade due to their additional mass.

A good way to distinguish the two cloud types is to hold your hand out and measure the size of an individual cloud; if it is the size of your thumb it is generally an altocumulus cloud, if it is the size of your hand it is generally a stratocumulus cloud.

It is uncommon for stratocumulus clouds to produce precipitation, but if they do it is usually a light rain or snow.

Next Topic: Stratus Clouds