Anti Marine Layer

Onshore flow was strong today with a very steady wind at UCI. That combined with monsoonal debris clouds helped Fullerton to have their first high below 85 F since July 2. Looks like some nice monsoon action over Arizona today could send more debris clouds our way tomorrow.

High temperatures were well below what was forecast today. First time that has happened in quite a while.

Not too hot today, but a little more humid.

This sounds somewhat like a California early June forecast discussion, but it is Albany, New York in mid-July.

Del Mar Beach continues to have very small differences between low and high temperature each day. Also very little difference in the weather pattern anywhere the last few days. Hoping for some monsoon acitvity tomorrow. SDDMB: DEL MAR BEACH 10 : 71 / 69 / 0.00 /

You can head over to Boston. Much cooler there with low clouds and fog (marine layer?) and a high of only 67.

Oxnard had trouble clearing today and there were no mountain thunderstorms. More like June than July. East Coast has dreadful humidity in Baltimore with dewpoints up to 78 F, but Hartford CT was only 65 F with lots of low clouds and fog. Sea surface temperatures make the difference between marine layer conditions, miserably muggy weather, and thunderstorms.

Strong inversion today looks to keep the beach areas cloudy and the inland areas smoky/hazy.

Marine layer clouds already moved in to the L.A. and San Diego coastal areas, despite above average sea surface temperatures and building high pressure. It is much slower to move into Orange County.

Why not manipulate a large tornado to hit the place where the people are manipulating the weather from?

I made it go dead.

I was in Oregon one summer and we hiked to the glacier on Mt. Hood, which was fun. The best part of the trip though was Crater Lake and that happened only because of a five hour train delay. Our plans changed as we drove to Klamath Falls from Eugene, spent an extra night there, went to Crater Lake the next morning, and took the next day's train, which was on time. Crater Lake is stunningly beautiful.

He's enjoying his diving freedom in that picture.

Oxnard is a marine layer magnet. Clouds cleared better to the south of L.A. than to the north of there today. It was still hot today, but there was a better sea breeze circulation.

There's a smoky smell in the air this morning. Either it is a new fire somewhere or the wind has changed to bring us smoke from the fires up north. My bet is a new fire.

There's a solid marine layer here for the first time in quite a while this morning.

When I was a kid, Southern California usually had cool summer evenings (typically in the low to mid 60s not long after sunset), but they are becoming less common now. End of June had a few cool evenings, however, but sea surface temperatures have warmed up recently. Although not as bad as the East Coast, our summers are becoming more humid. In 2015, we had evening temperatures in the mid 70s well into October, but that was the very strong El Nino that brought us almost no rain.

It feels cooler this evening with a pretty strong sea breeze, but sea surface temperatures are in the low to mid 70s. With the exception of 2010-2011 it seems our ocean temperatures are trending warmer during the summers as a result of climate change.

San Diego and Hilo have had similar overnight lows and dewpoints the last few days.

Monsoon is not ditching us like it did last year. Last year at this time not even Arizona had much monsoonal moisture. Does not look like either El Nino or La Nina developing.

71 F low with a marine layer in San Diego this morning. Not something you would ever see anywhere north of Santa Barbara.

Dewpoint was up to 69 F in San Diego this morning and that is with a marine layer cloud deck. Low only got down to 71 F. Last week it was 63 F.

I'm thinking these high dewpoints may more to do with than just monsoonal moisture as they are higher near the coast and sea surface temperatures have warmed into the low 70s. Hurricane swells might cool the water down again, however.

We have higher dewpoints than New York right now. It was a very hot day here even though much of the day was cloudy.

It hasn't been much cooler today with Fullerton actually hotter than yesterday and the humidity is making it miserable. Some sort of a sea breeze is starting up, but it is a very warm one.