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NWS offices in California NWS Eureka forecast zones NWS Medford forecast zones NWS Sacramento forecast zones NWS Reno forecast zones NWS San Francisco Bay Area forecast zones NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard forecast zones NWS San Joaquin Valley forecast zones NWS San Diego forecast zones NWS Phoenix forecast zones NWS Las Vegas forecast zones Each office in the National Weather Service has been assigned a group of counties known as the County Forecast & Warning Area (CWFA). That office is then responsible for defining "zones" where the weather tends to be similar and provides local forecasts for each "zone". At left is a map defining the CWFA's for California. Select the CWFA area of the state for which you would like to see the local forecast. Here is a key for interpreting the local forecast also. Here is a map of the zones in the NWS San Joaquin Valley CWFA. A glossary of meteorological terms can be found here.

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