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  Central Coast winds crank up today and Thursday

  

  Posted 12:02 PM 5/22/2013 by Dave Hovde

  There is an upper level trough will deepening across California today bringing stronger onshore flow to the region.

  Strong winds will road along primarily coastal areas and in the mountains and Southcoast in Santa Barbara county. Marine warnings and high surf advisories have also been (More)

  
  

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  Gale force winds generate high surf

  

  Posted 11:43 AM 5/22/2013 by Dave Hovde

  There are gale force northwesterly winds will continue across portions of the coastal waters through Thursday.

  The building wind-generated waves will propagate toward the coast and produce large breakers at many of the west and northwest facing beaches.

  As a result there is a (More)

  
  

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  Gale warning until late Thursday night

  

  Posted 11:37 AM 5/22/2013 by Dave Hovde

  Tonight: NW winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts to 45 kt. Combined seas 9 to 12 ft dominant period 11 seconds. Patchy fog after midnight.

  Thursday: NW winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts to 40 kt. Combined seas 7 to 9 ft dominant period 10 seconds. Patchy fog in the morning.

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  Strong winds Wednesday prompt additional advisories

  

  Posted 10:31 PM 5/21/2013 by Dave Hovde

  Central Coast winds will start cranking Wednesday afternoon and an advisory starts there from noon to 9 pm Wednesday and may be needed again Thursday.

  Northwest winds will increase to 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph on will happen on Wednesday afternoon continuing into the early evening (More)

  
  

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  May 21st, 2013 weather watcher report

  Posted 6:02 PM 5/21/2013 by Dave Hovde

  Arroyo Grande 50-78Atascadero 51-91CA Valley 51-88Cambria 47-67Corbett Canyon 51-76Creston 50-87Cuyama 54-88Goleta 59-71Grover Beach 51-73Lompoc 46-68Los Osos 50-61Morro Bay 52-58Paso Robles 53-88Pismo Beach 50-65 (More)

  
  

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  May 23rd, 2013 air quality forecast

  

  Posted 3:35 PM 5/21/2013 by Dave Hovde

  Thursday, May 23: 32 AQI Good Ozone
  Friday, May 24: 33 AQI Good Ozone
  Saturday, May 25: 31 AQI Good Ozone
  Sunday, May 26: 33 AQI Good Ozone

  The Air Quality Forecast is provided by the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District.

  For more information, visit http://www.slocleanair.org

   

  
  

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  Gale warning for marine waters til 3am Friday

  

  Posted 12:57 PM 5/21/2013 by Dave Hovde

  Tonight: NW winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts to 45 kt. Combined seas 8 to 11 ft dominant period 11 seconds. Patchy fog after midnight.

  Wednesday: NW winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts to 35 kt...becoming 25 to 30 kt with gusts to 40 kt in the afternoon. Combined seas 9 to 12 ft dominant period 11 (More)

  
  

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  Increasing winds will whip up large surf

  

  Posted 11:32 AM 5/21/2013 by Dave Hovde

  A high surf advisory in effect from 5 pm this afternoon to 11 am Thursday.

  Waves and surf will build to 9 to 13 feet. Choppy wave conditions are expected due to strong winds over the waters.

  Large breakers and the high risk of rip currents will make swimming dangerous.

   

  
  

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  Tuesday morning TrueView 6 weather forecast

  

  Posted 5:24 AM 5/21/2013 by Richard Gearhart

  Today: Mostly sunny, with highs ranging from the 60s at the coast to the 90s inland. North wind 5 to 15 mph becoming west northwest in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.Tonight: Mostly clear, with lows mainly in the 50s. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph decreasing to (More)

  
  

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  Only a half of one percent of tornadoes produce 68% of fatalities

  

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  Posted 11:25 PM 5/20/2013 by Dave Hovde

  Trueview 6 meteorologist Dave Hovde talks about the Moore, OK tornado and just how rare they are.

  Moore has been hit with 2 huge tornadoes in the last 14 years with a smaller tornado hitting in 2003.

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  Moore Oklahoma's tornadoes compared

  Posted 9:41 PM 5/20/2013 by Dave Hovde and Greg Murphy

  Today's Moore tornado is often compared to the 1999 tornado in the same town.

  The 1999 Moore, OK tornado was an F5, back in the pre-Enhanced Fujita scale.

  36 died in the 1999 tornago, Oklahoma's deadliest official F5/EF5 (until and if today's storm is upgraded).

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  Moore tornado very rare

  

  Posted 8:39 PM 5/20/2013 by Dave Hovde

  The incredible amount of debris associated with the Moore, OK tornado earlier today tells a real story about the power of the storm.  As I write this the official estimate is an EF-4 tornado, but I would be surprised if this were not upgraded to an EF-5.

  If the storm does get upgraded (More)