Mammoth Mountain & Eastern Sierra Weather Forecast

Mammoth Mountain & Eastern Sierra Weather Forecast

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Mammoth Lakes and Eastern Sierra Weather for Friday, August 13th, 2021 @ 1:28 PM

Weather Synopsis: The weather story will be warm temperatures, isolated thunderstorms and very hazy skies as a ridge of high pressure will dominate our weather into Monday. By the middle of next week, there will be some cooler temperatures on the way for the area.

Temperatures: Highs through Monday will be in the mid-70s on Mammoth Mountain and up in the Mammoth Lakes Basin at the 9000-foot level. Mammoth Lakes will be in the low 80s with Bishop into the low 100s.

Smoke and Haze: AQI levels in the hazy skies are in the 50-80 range with some higher levels at times. For those with lung and heart issues now is not the time to be outside recreating in the Eastern Sierra. 

More than likely the Eastern Sierra is going to see waves of haze and smoke at times until at least mid Fall. It’s going to take the first snow and rains of the upcoming wet season to get rid of all the hazy skies.

Here are the links to the local NWS Forecasts for Main Lodge & the Mammoth Lakes Basin, Mammoth Lakes, June Lake, Crowley Lake, and Bishop.

Extended Outlook: Expect much cooler highs and lows by the middle of next week. Let’s hope that allows the fires to have less smoke output.

Looking out towards Fall and into the Winter months, it’s looking dry and warm to start. Models have moved from a neutral winter to forecasting a la Nina to set up again.

Kind of early to jump on how strong it could be. Mammoth and the central Sierra have done good with weak La Nina’s, not so bad with moderate ones but if it’s strong again expect a drier year.

I posted the latest outlook from the ECMWF for October – December down the page a bit.

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Updated Friday August13th @ 1 PM

HRRR Temperature Forecast

HRRR Precipitation Forecast

HRRR Current Dew Point

HRRR Current Humidity Levels

Precipitable Water

ECMWF Accumulated Precipitation

 

ECMWF EPS Ensemble going out 10 days / 240 hour

Long Range Outlooks from the ECMWF

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