An NBC Palm Springs Weather Heads-Up! Hurricane Kay (currently a Cat-2 storm) continues to move NNW alongside the Mexican coastline. I packed-in a lot of information in this video clip regarding this rare near visit of a tropical system to the US Southwest area. Here's the latest NHC forecast path, GFS long-range outlook, the NAM with SoCal rain ETA, along with the latest estimated GEFS precipitation estimates. I will continue to tweak this Kay Cast and additional info comes in. Stay tuned! @Jer

An NBC Palm Springs Weather Thunderstorm Forecast! Here's a look at the latest HRRR weather computer model run regarding SoCal precipitation timing and coverage. With mid-level moisture in place -- and with the heating of the day -- a few orographic lift mountain thunderstorms are possible this afternoon. Steering currents will be out of the South, so any activity which develops later today will be pushed to the North. Because of this guidance, a few spill-over showers are possible for the Coach

An NBC Palm Springs 'Detailed' Weather Heads-Up! A wobbling upper-level trough of low pressure will produce two waves across Southern California, dropping precipitation between Wednesday-afternoon and early-Friday morning. This video loop features my breakdown of when SoCal will begin to see rain, along with accumulation estimates for those 48-hours. While there will be widespread rain to our West, the Coachella Valley will only see hit-and-miss light showers totaling in the low hundredths-of-an