Sunday and Monday, November 22/23, 1998, Look Wet

   

Dashed Line and boxes show 12 hr positions of wave cyclone.  How does this show that this storm is a Middle Latitude Type Cyclone?

 The chart above is the 500 mb chart forecast for Monday afternoon.  Note the strong jet stream over California and the West.  The chart suggests that strong upper tropospheric divergence will be taking place over California on this day. This is the forecast surface chart for Sunday afternoon.  Note the wave cyclone entering the Pacific Northwest with trailing fronts over California.  

What would your forecast wind direction be for San Francisco on that day? 

   Here is the rainfall forecast for the 24 hours ending Monday at 5PM PST. Looks like we are in for heavy precipitation.