I've been thinking that this year would be dry anyway, because three wet years in a row seems too good to be true

Great information based on facts and not emotions.

Thank you. MARK

Thank you Mr Finan, you are the best meteorologist ever!

Thank you!

Good morning Mark. Thank you for the morning briefing 😊

On my many years of farming I came to expect 4-6 week dry spell usually including January. February was usually the best month for rain sometimes starting February first. Not true the last few years.

Good morning, Mark and fellow weather watchers. As of 9:55 am it's ☀️ and 51° at the Orchard Cottage Weather Center in Oakdale, CA. Dew Point 39°. Humidity 67%. Winds out of the NNE at 3 mph. Gusts 8 mph. Barometer 30.21 steady. Morning low 31°. Loved your precipitation chart but we are already below normal here at Orchard Cottage. So I seriously doubt that we're going to see a normal rainfall season here in Oakdale this year. Bill

Thanks Mark always interesting to hear your insights

The dry January gets me very nervous. The last few times we had dry January we all had drought. Hope this doesn’t happen this year

Thank you Mark!

👍 thank you

Good morning and Thank you Mark

Great info on the wet and dry periods!

The rain chart you went over this morning sure provides some hope ! I love seeing this, thanks for sharing. Really enjoy the Morning Briefing!

The creation of this ridiculous PDS acronym reminds me of the ROUSes from The Princess Bride. That acronym (for Rodents Of Unusual Size) was intentionally preposterous. This one isn’t. Of course Mark didn’t invent this, others did and he is just reporting it. I hope the people at the top of the weather reporting hierarchy realize how silly they sound, and how they are trivializing what should be a serious and significant warning. They need to come up with a suitably serious and not-at-all laughable way of describing a situation that is beyond the very reasonable-sounding red flag warning. And, Mark is the greatest. We miss watching him on KCRA but are grateful for his efforts here!

The government has to make acronyms out of everything. I work with the military and they do the same thing. 😅

Yes we get warnings similar to this every summer in Australia. We are use to it. Total fire Ban is one and and Extreme is another. Common sense really. Living in a high fire danger area, people should be aware of their warnings and use their phone apps.

Well with an ever warming climate and now a new warning level PDS, can a next-level warning HFS, be far behind…

I only ever heard PDS with tornadoes!

At least 5 different arsonists arrested, and likely plenty more got away.

We are also currently experiencing La Niña weather effect, which brings drier and warmer conditions to many regions, particularly in the southern region of the US.

It's a lie that wind speeds were "45 - 70 mph" in all 6 regions last week. Go look it up.

Look up weather report in each area for last week and you'll find that the wind speeds were 0 - 7 mph or so (tops). Also, Pac Palisades wind was blowing S - SW and not north to have started the other fires.

For the few of that are disappointed with Mark’s weather analysis and don’t like his use of descriptive terminology, go somewhere else that suits your tastes. You’re just wasting our bandwidth. You’re not forced to watch this channel.

The PDS sounds like a double red flag 🚩 🚩 warning ⚠️

magenta.

One question Mark, does La Nina factor into the winds we are seeing in SOCAL? And lack of rain......Thanks for another excellent forecast.

Mark Finan Weather Center. Where the Weather Comes First! Bill

PDS I have not heard of that term before. I'm always learning new things from the Mark, Finan and Weather Center. This may be the first season. I can remember it a long time when rain did not interrupt yard work. Bill

It's impossible to monitor all the psychopaths all the time. Has it been determined yet where / how last week's catastrophe started? Arsonists? Pyromaniacs? A few were apprehended, caught red handed, so to speak. It only takes one. This is a social as well as environmental problem. Just saying.

Always learn something new. Thank you for holding Weather Class, Mark🎉

Hi Mark Thanks for the great reporting ! Learned something new today Always love your reporting

PDS…, a particularly peculiar situation…, indeed. Love your channel, and your particular way of educating us. Thank you Mark.

Good morning Mark. thanks for another great and informative post. Thanks also for your updates about the national weather.

Red flag warning ... and it's "Pretty Damned Serious"

Good Morning and Thank you Mr Mark 🙏

Thank you

As always, rational and informative without sensational glitz. Much appreciated!

Thanks for all the lingo lessons!

Thank you Mark! Great info!

Thanks Mark, hopefully before to long we will be talking about rain.

Much appreciated.

They do the same for hurricanes...by reporting winds at altitude (5K, 10K, etc.). The surface winds are never as strong as their doom reporting. I use an aviation weather app that gives me current and forecast conditions within a defined radius...and they're never as strong as media reports.

May I add don't drag your towing safely chains!

I have been living on the planet, and in California for 72 years now, and there is one thing I can say with complete certainty... Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. 🥸

PDS- news to me. Thanks Mark! George Carlin would be proud of this new acronym...

PDS...new one on me. Thanks, Mark...youre always here for us all.

I think you weather people get off applying new names to the same situation. Atmospheric river for instance? It's called a storm, don't make it any scarier than what it is just for people to click on it. You disappoint more than anything.

Common sense and practical experience, this sadly missed in the TV world! However this is why we love your weather briefings! Keep up the good work Mark!