2018 California/Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Hoping for another AR

 

Thursday: 81/ 53

 

https://twitter.com/RobElvington

 

Looks like most of the activity will be to the north of us again.

 

Fog burned off rather quickly this morning. Offshore flow was not able to reach the coast.

[Guest happ]

Looks like most of the activity will be to the north of us again.

 

Fog burned off rather quickly this morning. Offshore flow was not able to reach the coast.

 

Lots of moisture for all of the state if this verifies:

 

@busterballs2000

[Minny_Weather]

Hello from Riverside. Feels a whole lot like June here. Nice to see green hills, I haven't seen that while visiting here in quite some time. 86°F.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Hills are already less green than they were a week ago.

[Guest happ]

Warmest day this month but no heatwave

 

84/ 54  

[Jesse]

Hills are already less green than they were a week ago.

Progress.

[Minny_Weather]

I believe it hit 90°F here. I don't know, I took a nap.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Thick high clouds have arrived. Probably too thick for a nice sunset, but you never know.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Another foggy morning here. The fog is quite dense.

[Anti Marine Layer]

It is a dirty ridge, with the "dirt" being lots of high clouds and marine layer haze. Sky is like a dirty car window.

[Guest happ]

No fog here this week but lots of haze today. I wish this was the sky outside right now

https://twitter.com/MikeOlbinski

[Guest happ]

@RandomTreeInSB

 

[Guest happ]

Not good but better than pre AR [except Imperial county]:

[Anti Marine Layer]

Plenty of high clouds throughout the day while the beach remained socked in fog with temperatures in the upper 50s.

[Guest happ]

March 2018 [24 yr data]

 

Average Max: 69.4 / Norm: 73

Average Min: 52.1 / Norm: 53

Mean: 60.7

 

Hi/LoMax: 84/ 56

Hi/LoMin: 58/44

 

HDD: 141

CDD: 14

 

Rain: 3.97

Year [jul-jun]: 6.58 

Days: 10

[Anti Marine Layer]

Happ would have enjoyed the gray, foggy, damp weather at the beach today, where temperatures struggled to reach 60 degrees, but I enjoyed the low-mid 70s a couple of miles inland with sunshine filtering through the high clouds most of the day.

[Guest happ]

https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

https://twitter.com/NWSSanDiego

Too bad you could not spend your day there.

[Guest happ]

No complains and a little surprised it hit 80F again w/ all the clouds. Have been keeping the bedroom window open at night. Mockingbirds bother some but I love their endless songs.

[Anti Marine Layer]

One year there was a mockingbird in a tree next to my driveway and it would sing all night and keep me awake. One night I got so mad I threw my Spanish book at the tree. I had nothing else to throw at that time. The book got stuck in the tree. The mockingbird did leave and not just for one night.

 

Then there's always the mockingbird scene from Failure to Launch.

[Anti Marine Layer]

There is a marine layer this morning, but no dense fog. Weather looks very springlike this week.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Although the high cloud stream has been continuous since Friday afternoon, it's more like an atmospheric trickle than an atmospheric river.

[Anti Marine Layer]

First major marine layer event of the spring tomorrow (clouds reaching lower coastal slopes). So far high clouds have been much more prevalent than the marine layer clouds.

 

Temperatures for next weekend look a bit warm with rain in the forecast.

[Guest happ]

March was the coolest month this year so far.

 

73/ 55

 

https://twitter.com/Climatologist49

 

[Minny_Weather]

Glad the weather treated me nicely. Back in Nebraska where it's 20 degrees now.

[Guest happ]

https://twitter.com/Weather_West

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

May Gray is a month early. What should we call this? April Shrapnel?

[Guest happ]

"The Sierra snowpack has gotten bigger, but that was no 'March miracle" http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article207692189.html

 

[Guest happ]

Stratus was slow to burn off this morning; cirrus & onshore marine air kept temp on cool side.

 

69/ 55

[Anti Marine Layer]

It's a bit early in the year, but it looks like that time of year where the beaches are consistently cool and cloudy has begun, although there was some reverse clearing yesterday.

[Guest happ]

https://twitter.com/AnthonyNBCLA

 

[Jesse]

https://twitter.com/AnthonyNBCLA

How is Sierra snow looking with this pattern?

[Guest happ]

How is Sierra snow looking with this pattern?

 

This is basically hype from a local TV met who should know better but desire is stronger than reason when it comes to rain in S.California

[Anti Marine Layer]

Typical lowering marine inversion day with very late, but mostly complete clearing, including the beaches.

[Jesse]

This is basically hype from a local TV met who should know better but desire is stronger than reason when it comes to rain in S.California

Sure, but it still looks likely that an AR will affect some part of CA late this week.

[Guest happ]

San Joaquin valley picked up good showers from the last AR; nice repeat coming

 

[Guest happ]

Today's max/ min are the exact 24-year monthly average for April at my location. The mere 1 degree difference between average March and April monthly temps illustrates the very slow warming during Spring along the West Coast.

 

74/ 54

[Anti Marine Layer]

Low clouds took their lovely time to clear this morning, but it became sunny and now a new inversion will be forming as the old one gets replaced.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Trees in my front yard are extremely slow to get leaves this year after the abrupt transition to winter weather weather late February. It could be the slowest ever, and as you may remember, leaves were still falling late January. However, I'm not sure it's the latest ever, because it's been a while since we've had a cool March.

 

Now we're in a way too early gray/gloom pattern, so nothing has been quite right this past winter and spring.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Much shallower marine layer this morning, with even some fog. Sea surface temperatures are below normal, but not by much.