Rain in Central Valley's forecast could have negative affect on season's harvest

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Farmers and firefighters are looking to the entity and waiting arsenic rainfall is being forecasted for the Central Valley.

Grapes, almonds and raisins are among the crops presently being harvested. However, excessive rainfall tin spoil these crops.

“A batch of the crops are delicate close now,” said Ryan Jacobsen, CEO of the Fresno County Farm Bureau.

Jacobsen said it's a waiting crippled for farmers connected the vale floor.

"It looks similar astir folks volition astir apt flight it, but if you hap to beryllium the 1 underneath that rainfall cloud, that's wherever the problems come,” Jacobsen said.

However, immoderate snowfall oregon precipitation successful the Sierra Nevada is welcome.

“That's conscionable bully for kicking disconnected a h2o year,” Jacobsen said.

If rainfall does fall, Jacobsen says perfect post-rain upwind would beryllium precocious winds and warmer temperatures. He says everybody is enjoying the chill weather.

Including the hardworking California firefighters arsenic the chill temps let them to enactment longer and beryllium much productive successful extinguishing the fires. 

Due to the imaginable for thunderstorms, the National Weather Service warns of lightning threats successful the Sierra Nevada and foothills.