Rob Carlmark

3 weeks ago | abc10.com | Rob Carlmark

CALIFORNIA, USA — Water years in California can be all over the place with massive years immediately followed by major droughts. It's been described as hit and miss, but rarely do you get a hit-hit-hit situation in one key metric for water in the state: snowpack. Snowpack is highly variable since it's a component of water and temperature.

3 weeks ago | abc10.com | Rob Carlmark

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rain on Opening Day for professional baseball is not what anybody wants to hear, but it is a possibility as the Athletics begin their multi-year stint at West Sacramento's Sutter Health Park. A system is bringing in guaranteed cold air and clouds with windy conditions during the day. It will also bring a chance of shower and thunderstorms for most of the day, but a gap starts to open in the evening.

1 month ago | abc10.com | Rob Carlmark

Earlier this week, Northern California experienced cold temperatures, rain, snow and even tornado warnings. As we move into the weekend, the pattern is shifting and we will experience a long trend of sunny and dry weather. Spring weather often has big swings in the pattern alternating from sunny and mild, then back to cold with rain and snow. In the short term, we will be on the upswing with high pressure moving in and temperatures warming.

1 month ago | abc10.com | Rob Carlmark

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Long range weather forecasting is a very challenging endeavor but has had some success over the the decades it's been in practice. Two global weather phenomenon come to mind for most people called El Niño and La Niña. The El Niño event is spawned by warmer than average temperatures in the Central Pacific called the "Nino 3.4" region.

1 month ago | abc10.com | Rob Carlmark

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Monday's stormy weather played out in many different chapters with impacts across the northern parts of California and Sacramento region. Light rain and snow moved through Northern California Monday morning, mostly just getting things wet in the valley and a dusting of snow for the Sierra. The rain stopped early in the morning but the snow continued and there was a winter storm warning until 11 p.m. Monday.