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That is the onshore flow behind the remnants of Lidia.   Sounds like you are getting hit really hard.  Makes the situation in Texas seem like a day in the park.   :)

 

Puts your endless complaints of daily rain/ limited "sun breaks" each winter in correct perspective, huh Tim? :rolleyes:

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106º in downtown San Francisco today?!? Shattered their all-time record high by 3 degrees. That's incredible!

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Better photo courtesy of Wonderland Park  

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I picked up 0.10" from Lidia's remnants yesterday here in Orange. For a good part of the early to mid afternoon, it really didn't look as if much was going to happen here. However, the cloud deck lowered and grew darker as thunderstorms developed over the Inland Empire and moved west and it finally rained for a little while in the late afternoon.

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Encouraging signal was the drop below 70° this morning across valley areas due, in part to clear skies but relative humidity ranged between 80 - 100%. That was a brutal heat wave for California like a fiery bookend to summer. The relentless heat during June, especially in NorCal also featured extreme dew points at times.

 

I feel dread that Miami may become the next Houston. But the South/ East Coast have enjoyed a cool late summer unlike Pacific NW.

 

L: 70

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Looks like Irma is headed for Florida, but a change in track could bring it to the Gulf states. Not looking good at all.

 

I am in Avalon now, which had no marine layer this morning.

 

Beautiful place. I went there for the first time last winter. Felt like a mix of California, Mexico, and the Mediterranean.

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I'm back from Catalina, where I could see the thunderclouds in the distance today. Despite starting out sunny, it was still a very hazy day, with Catalina disappearing about half way back to Newport Beach. It is a beautiful place there with the Casino Point Dive Park having way more fish than I've ever seen in any tropical location. They are not as colorful as the tropical fish though, except for the orange giribaldi, which the babies have bright blue spots on. 

 

Only annoying thing about Avalon is there's more noisy, stinky golf carts driving around and polluting the air than I've ever seen there before.

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4th video is the best. Looks like a hurricane at landfall.

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I'm back from Catalina, where I could see the thunderclouds in the distance today. Despite starting out sunny, it was still a very hazy day, with Catalina disappearing about half way back to Newport Beach. It is a beautiful place there with the Casino Point Dive Park having way more fish than I've ever seen in any tropical location. They are not as colorful as the tropical fish though, except for the orange giribaldi, which the babies have bright blue spots on. 

 

Only annoying thing about Avalon is there's more noisy, stinky golf carts driving around and polluting the air than I've ever seen there before.

 

Aren't golf carts electric?

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Keeping my fingers crossed that the next chance of rainfall will materialize over the weekend particularly since my location missed out on showers during Labor Day weekend. 

 

Thursday: 90/ 67 [ending a 10-night stretch of 70+ minimums & dew points]

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A decent chance of Thunderstorms on Sunday and Monday again

 

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The flash flood watch extends from inland San Luis Obispo to LA county -

 

Flood Watch

National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA

538 AM PDT Sat Sep 9 2017

 

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE

SUNDAY NIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA INCLUDING

RECENT BURN AREAS...

 

An upper low just off the central California coast will drop

southward today and tonight, and will be located about 300 miles

west of northern Baja Sunday morning. Mid and upper level flow

across the region will become southeasterly on Sunday, and will

transport copious amounts of monsoonal moisture into Southern

California. In addition, the atmosphere will become increasingly

unstable Sunday afternoon and evening. As a result, there is a

chance of showers and thunderstorms across much of the area from

Sunday morning through late Sunday night.

 

While the winds in the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere

will be rather strong, there is a high likelihood of training

thunderstorms with very heavy downpours. This will result in

the potential for flash flooding, especially in the mountains, the

Antelope Valley, the Cuyama Valley, and in recent burn areas such

as the Alamo, Whittier, La Tuna, Sand and Fish burn areas.

Rainfall rates over one inch per hour are possible with thunderstorms.

 

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE

SUNDAY NIGHT...

 

The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a

 

* Flash Flood Watch for a portion of southwest California,

  including the following areas, Cuyama Valley, San Luis Obispo

  County Mountains, Santa Barbara County Mountains, and the recent

  burn areas in the Santa Ynez Valley.

 

* Flash Flood Watch for a portion of southwest California,

  including the following areas, Antelope Valley, Los Angeles

  County Mountains excluding the Santa Monica Range, Ventura

  County Mountains, and the recent burn areas in the San Fernando

  Valley, San Gabriel Valley, and Santa Clarita Valley.

 

* From Sunday morning through late Sunday night

 

* Heavy rainfall with rates locally over 1 inch per hour is

  possible across the watch area.

 

* In addition to the threat of flash flooding across the watch

  area, any thunderstorms that develop over the recent burn areas

  will bring the risk for debris flows. Due to the recent nature

  of the La Tuna, Sand, and Fish burn areas, they will be

  especially at risk for debris flows if these high rainfall rates

  occur.

 

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SST are still warm but should begin getting cooler into mid-September

 

TANNER BANKS  :  68
S CLEMENTE BASIN  :  71 
SAN NICOLAS IS.  :   66              

SO. S. ROSA ISLA  :  66  
W. S. BARBARA CH : 64 
M. S. BARBARA CH :  68 
S. MONICA BASIN  :   72 
S PEDRO CHANNEL : 72           
CMP PENDLETON NS : 71          
OCEANSIDE OFFSHR : 73    
TORREY PINES OTR  :  72             
SAN DIEGO BAY  :  76           
POINT LOMA SOUTH :  73               

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Feels humid again today even with a dew point of 59.

 

The eye of Hurricane Irma now looks to hit the west coast of Florida instead of the east coast. Looks like it should miss the Georgia coast. That could result in less widespread damage than originally thought, but either way it will still be terrible.

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