West-WRF Meteogram and Virtual RASS Forecasts

| IVT | IWV | 3-h Precip | 24-h Precip | 3-h Snow | 24-h Snow | 2-m Temperature | 925-hPa Winds | 250-hPa Winds | 0°C Height | Meteograms & Virtual RASS |

Water Vapor Flux Plot: Top Panel: Wind barbs colored by speed (m s^-1) and snow level represented by black dots. Middle Panel: Integrated water vapor (mm; black dashed line) and bulk water vapor flux (in kt; red dashed line). Bottom Panel: Bulk upslope flux (in kt; dashed red line) and 3-hr accumulated precipitation (mm; blue line). Bottom axis represents initialization time with time increasing to the right. The red dot on the map indicates the location of the current plot.

Virtual RASS Plot: Top Panel: Wind barbs (m s^-1) and virtual potential temperature (K; shaded according to scale). Second Panel: Surface wind speed (m s^-1; blue line) and surface wind direction (°;black dashed line). Third Panel: Hourly precipitation (mm; solid line) and cloud liquid content below 5 km (mm; dashed line). Bottom Panel: Water vapor mixing ration (g kg^-1; blue line), temperature at 2 meters (°C; red line) and surface pressure (hPa; black dashed line). Bottom axis represents initialization time with time increasing to the right. The red dot on the map indicates the location of the current plot.

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Type: Water Vapor FluxVirtual RASS

Location: Bodega Bay, CAChico, CALake Mendocino, CAMcKinleyville, CAPoint Sur, CASacramento, CASanta Barbara, CATracy, CAVisalia, CA