2017 California/Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Low clouds are hanging tough near the beaches, more so than yesterday. Looks like any significant monsoonal moisture will not arrive until tomorrow.

[Anti Marine Layer]

The low clouds are already pushing onshore in San Diego and Los Angeles Counties. Downtown L.A. only showing 74 F, which would be May-like, but looks like their thermometer went kaput this morning since 9:53 AM is the last reading. It is looking like earlier models which showed the West Coast heat wave for all places except West of the mountains in Southern California could be correct.

[Guest happ]

July 2017

 

Aver Max: 90.0° / Norm: 88

Aver Min: 67.3° / Norm: 65 

Mean: 78.6°

 

Max Hi/Lo: 101/ 82

Min Hi/Lo: 75/ 62

 

H Degree Day: 0

C. Degree Days: 425

 

Rain: 0.00

[Anti Marine Layer]

Smoke from Lake Elsinore fire was visible this afternoon.

[Dan the Weatherman]

The low clouds are already pushing onshore in San Diego and Los Angeles Counties. Downtown L.A. only showing 74 F, which would be May-like, but looks like their thermometer went kaput this morning since 9:53 AM is the last reading. It is looking like earlier models which showed the West Coast heat wave for all places except West of the mountains in Southern California could be correct.

The heat forecast for Socal west of the mountains is just typical heat for this time of year and is not a heatwave just as you were saying. Portland, Oregon, on the other hand, is going to have a heatwave with 3 days at or over 100 degrees.

[Dan the Weatherman]

Smoke from Lake Elsinore fire was visible this afternoon.

I saw this large cloud buildup above my neighbor's house earlier this afternoon, and didn't know at first whether it was a developing thunderstorm or a pyrocumulus cloud from a fire. I even saw it from a webcam from near Temecula, but still couldn't quite make it out. Then I heard about the Elsinore fire later and figured that is what I saw earlier.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Thunder in San Diego this morning. They always get the best of monsoonal moisture.

[Anti Marine Layer]

There's a mixture of marine layer clouds and monsoon clouds this morning. I can no longer see any smoke.

[Thunder98]

Mid and high level clouds streaming through and the dumb marine layer is clearing up.

 

 

 

[Guest happ]

Active night inland w/ showers moving west into Los Angeles this morning. The ground is damp; radar shows rain/ virga moving over La Crescenta currently.

 

Photo outside Hemet earlier

[Guest happ]

"Monsoonal patterns brings rain, chance of thunderstorms to OC and Inland Empire on Tuesday" http://abc7.com/weather/southern-california-weather-forecast-tuesday/58983/

 

edit: this is not Onscene.TV video of thunderstorm last night on twitter that I can not transfer  

[Guest happ]

BLYTHE         PTSUNNY   90  74  59 S13       29.87R HX  99          

[Guest happ]

Ouch, where did these temps come from?

 

PASADENA        N/A    100  66  32 E2          N/A  HX 104          
 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Cloud is growing quickly. Rain or thunder could be headed our way. It's quite hot and muggy.

 

 

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

The cloud has now covered most of the sky, but no rain or thunder so far as the ocean will probably kill it.

[Anti Marine Layer]

It is starting to sprinkle here and I just heard some distant thunder. Maybe this storm can make it to the coast.

[Guest happ]

Clouds building but no rain.  August is starting out miserably muggy. 

 

98/ 68

[Anti Marine Layer]

Plenty of lightning and thunder, but not much rain.

[Dan the Weatherman]

Ouch, where did these temps come from?

 

PASADENA        N/A    100  66  32 E2          N/A  HX 104          

 

It reached the upper 90's here in Orange this afternoon before the thunderstorms moved through the area.

[Guest happ]

Rain was reported from the deserts to the coastline today though highest amounts in the mountains, naturally. More outflow from disturbances to the east and south into tomorrow. Warm humid night. 

 

CHULA VISTA [ele: 65'] : 76 / 68 / 0.07 /

ALPINE [1695] : 94 / 68 / 1.52 /

TEMECULA [1020] : 96 / 68 / 0.40 /

ANGELUS OAKS [5800] : 79 / 61 / 1.00 /

IMPERIAL [-56] : 108 / 84 / 0.04 /

[Thunder98]

40% of thunderstorm today! Hot and humid as well

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Very humid with lots of monsoonal moisture this morning. It started out sunny, but it's getting cloudy.

[Bonk]

We got a quarter inch here at the base of Santiago when the storm blew through.

[Guest happ]

We got a quarter inch here at the base of Santiago when the storm blew through.

 

Right elevation/ right spot

[Thunder98]

81°F with a dew point of 64°F

[Guest happ]

Cloud shield may weaken convective possibility but also keep the temp in check. It cleared up yesterday afternoon allowing  the temp to soar.

 

*PASADENA        N/A     88  72  58 E6          N/A  HX  94          
 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Mammatus clouds?

 

 

Sky looks threatening, but it probably will not rain here five miles from the coast.

[Bonk]

I wrote:

We got a quarter inch here at the base of Santiago when the storm blew through.

 

Right elevation/ right spot

 

Yep.

 

Here's a post from the local 'Next Door' forum:

 

Someone wrote:

"I got onto Santiago Canyon Road about 4:00 give or take 30 minutes (already on canyon time). Hit stretches from the lake to near Williams where the downpour was so strong you could barely see 20 feet and cars were stopping in the road. Got to the final stretch coming up to Modjeska and there were patches of blue showing overhead and to the south. Local weather on a micro scale."

[Thunder98]

Temperatures went up and down this afternoon. Today is the hottest day of the year so far at 87F.

[Thunder98]

Yesterday at this time it was only 66F, right now it's a muggy 82F! 16 degrees warmer than yesterday at the same time!

 

[Thunder98]

It's 81F at 7 PM!

[Guest happ]

Yep.

 

Here's a post from the local 'Next Door' forum:

 

Someone wrote:

"I got onto Santiago Canyon Road about 4:00 give or take 30 minutes (already on canyon time). Hit stretches from the lake to near Williams where the downpour was so strong you could barely see 20 feet and cars were stopping in the road. Got to the final stretch coming up to Modjeska and there were patches of blue showing overhead and to the south. Local weather on a micro scale."

 

Elevation gets the goods again.

 

NWS_SD

_________________________501 PM WEDNESDAY_________________________

 

 

.TOP RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM ALL ZONES

 

        STATION              PRECIP(IN)    ELEVATION(FT)

 

     1. LA JOLLA ERN TANKS     2.33            3000

     2. PALOMAR MOUNTAIN RAWS  1.71            5530

     3. PALOMAR OBSERVATORY    1.65            5560

     4. LA JOLLA AMAGO         1.64            2400

     5. BIRCH HILL             1.36            5645

     6. MOUNT LAGUNA RAWS      1.07            5760

     7. HENSHAW DAM            0.87            2750

     8. MT LAGUNA              0.68            6000

     9. SANTA YSABEL           0.33            2990

     10.SKY OAKS               0.29            4970

 

 

[Guest happ]

"California May See More Rainfall Over the Next Century" https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/community/2017/08/01/california-may-see-more-rainfall-over-the-next-century

[Anti Marine Layer]

Dewpoint at 70 F in San Diego as the marine layer comes in. Ugh!

[luminen]

Dewpoint at 70 F in San Diego as the marine layer comes in. Ugh!

 

A 70F dewpoint and temp of 74F sounds pretty nice to be honest.

[Dan the Weatherman]

Yep.

 

Here's a post from the local 'Next Door' forum:

 

Someone wrote:

"I got onto Santiago Canyon Road about 4:00 give or take 30 minutes (already on canyon time). Hit stretches from the lake to near Williams where the downpour was so strong you could barely see 20 feet and cars were stopping in the road. Got to the final stretch coming up to Modjeska and there were patches of blue showing overhead and to the south. Local weather on a micro scale."

 

That's just a few miles SE of where I live here in Orange, and that area is much more rural than the rest of Orange County being at the base of the Santa Ana Mountains. I had only light showers yesterday afternoon with some thunder and lightning. There was one loud crack of thunder overhead that immediately followed a flash of lightning. Only 0.02" fell here at my place in Orange, but it sounds as if the Silverado Canyon, Williams Canyon and Modjeska Canyon area got quite a downpour.

[Anti Marine Layer]

San Diego is 74 F and OVC005 this morning with a dewpoint of 71 F. Low was 73 F.

 

Meanwhile Hilo, HI is 70 F with a dewpoint of 67 F and light rain.

[Guest happ]

Nothing more than a trace here/ Pasadena 0.04 during this entire monsoon episode.

 

Wednesday: 95/ 76

[Guest happ]

NWS_SD

 

Looking east from Escondido

[Anti Marine Layer]

Morro Bay reached 74 F for a high yesterday. Their residents are not used to such hot temperatures there. Most summer days are foggy and upper 50s to low 60s.