2017 California/Southwest Weather Thread

[Guest happ]

This cool air mass really helps keep snow melt in check as well as providing another couple inches in high mt stations even in SoCal/ Arizona. Flooding is expected in the Central valley this spring unless deep troughs persist all summer. 

 

Marina Jurica/ Fresno sky yesterday 

 

[Guest happ]

Just a reminder of a great rain year.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Another cool and windy day in the desert as the deep marine layer is easily visible in the Banning Pass.

[Guest happ]

All that relatively cool air will be replaced by 100F-plus temps in the desert this weekend. Maybe 90's here.

 

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[Anti Marine Layer]

Another picture from Rancho Mirage.

Marine layer clouds almost look like snow.

[Guest happ]

More beautiful photos of clouds in the desert yesterday [courtesy of Annette Johnson]. Outside Mojave [northern LA County]

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Once again Palm Springs is only 73 F at 11 AM in the middle of May. It is also very windy. They are forecasting a high of about 86 F, but in order for that to happen, the marine layer has to clear out of Banning Pass.

[Guest happ]

Another day w/ max below 70F this month; probably the last day in the 60's for a while.

 

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[Anti Marine Layer]

Clouds were once again spilling over the mountains like waves today and the desert only reached upper 70s in some areas. Windiest day yet. Tomorrow looks to be warmer.

[Guest happ]

Nice photo of Parque Nacional Constitución de 1857 above Ensenada in Baja [80 miles from San Diego]; the forest in Hanson plain looks healthy after a very wet winter/ May. I was surprised to find out that these mountains are part of the Sierra Nevada range.

#BajaCalifornia

[Anti Marine Layer]

Much warmer day today with little wind so far. Banning Pass is no longer fogged in and I can see the windmills much better.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Nice photo of Parque Nacional Constitución de 1857 above Ensenada in Baja [80 miles from San Diego]; the forest in Hanson plain looks healthy after a very wet winter/ May. I was surprised to find out that these mountains are part of the Sierra Nevada range.[/size]

Are you hiking there?

[Guest happ]

Are you hiking there?

 

@DiscoverBaja

 

No. It is one of several regions not too far away and worth exploring. I did get drunk in San Felipe a long time ago en route to Canon de Guadalupe. 

[Guest happ]

First average max [77.5°] in over a week.

 

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Some more photos of Sierra de Juarez which, by the way, is not part of the Sierra Nevada Cordillera contrary to Wikipedia misinformation. Laguana Hanson is 5500'. La Rumorosa is on the other side of the mountains.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Felt much more like the desert here today with a high of about 92. Looks like Orange County could have higher temperatures this weekend than Palm Springs had Monday to Wednesday.

[Anti Marine Layer]

John Wayne Airport at 81 F is already warmer than the 80 F high at Palm Springs on Wednesday.

[Guest happ]

Still managed to stay below 90F and nowhere in California was really hot [95° or higher] that I could find except maybe NorCal

 

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[Anti Marine Layer]

Looks like Fullerton did reach 91 F today, which is about the same as the desert.

[Dan the Weatherman]

@DiscoverBaja

 

No. It is one of several regions not too far away and worth exploring. I did get drunk in San Felipe a long time ago en route to Canon de Guadalupe. 

 

That reminds me of a desert oasis about 20 miles from Palm Springs that I saw on a Huell Howser episode the other night.

[Guest happ]

That reminds me of a desert oasis about 20 miles from Palm Springs that I saw on a Huell Howser episode the other night.

 

There are several oases and canyons w/ native fan palms near Palm Springs including some in Joshua Tree. The oases follow the San Andreas fault. Canon de Guadalupe is a spa and close to but not part of the Parque Nacional Constitución. There are palm grower associations that know of all the oases/ canyons. Mulege is another area in Baja.

 

Warm day ahead

[Guest happ]

Hottest day of the year today

 

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[Dan the Weatherman]

Hottest day of the year today

 

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It was even warm at the coast today, but not as hot as it was inland. I was in San Clemente this afternoon and it was in the upper 70's to low 80's there.

[Dan the Weatherman]

There are several oases and canyons w/ native fan palms near Palm Springs including some in Joshua Tree. The oases follow the San Andreas fault. Canon de Guadalupe is a spa and close to but not part of the Parque Nacional Constitución. There are palm grower associations that know of all the oases/ canyons. Mulege is another area in Baja.

 

Warm day ahead

I remember hearing on that same Huell Howser episode that the oasis near Palm Springs is along the San Andreas Fault.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Record highs and record low highs all in the same week.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Not as hot today with quite a temperature gradient from the coast to about 10 miles inland. UCI was mid 70s with a cool sea breeze. Lake Forest near 90.

[Guest happ]

Marine layer hugging the coast and should move inland more and more each night this week as another fairly deep trough develops. Maximums in the 60's by Thursday?

 

Sunday 92/ 65

[Anti Marine Layer]

Today should be the last hot day (away from the beaches) for a while. Chance of showers by Thursday night.

[Guest happ]

Monday: 88/ 61

[Anti Marine Layer]

Marine layer cleared the beaches and then came storming back inland to John Wayne Airport. Must have had an unexpected coastal eddy spin up.

[Guest happ]

I was just outside; there's a noticeable cooling. Currently 77F; down from 84 an hour ago.

 

11AM  L.A. DOWNTOWN  SUNNY     79  59  50 W8        29.92S   

NOON  L.A. DOWNTOWN  MOSUNNY   70  58  65 W9G17     29.96R   

[Anti Marine Layer]

Eddy is now quite obvious in satellite imagery.

 

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Eddy moved southeast and it's getting brutally hot. Around 12 pm, there was a cool breeze that was pretty strong. Now there is no breeze.

[Guest happ]

The marine push was short-lived but it remained slightly below the 86° reached before noon.  Too bad the ULL southwest of California lacks much if any moisture.  Just another 'lazy low' that tends to produce May Gray conditions minus rainfall.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sky is monsoon-like today, with some possible virga. 

 

[Guest happ]

Wednesday: 81/ 58

[Anti Marine Layer]

Broken Mt Wilson Observatory camera today, but my guess is that they get fogged in tonight up there and the stargazing won't be ideal. They could also be just above the marine layer and have the city lights blocked out by the clouds below for better viewing.

[Guest happ]

May Gray in full control

 

Thursday: 69/ 58

[Anti Marine Layer]

Getting some reverse clearing this morning with deep marine layer clouds reaching as far inland as the Central Valley. No rain here this morning and actually got some sunshine before it got mostly cloudy again. Looks like a few more weeks of these deep marine layer events before the Four Corners High builds in by late June or early July to bring more consistent summer-like weather.

 

Last two Mays were pretty much consistently cool and trough-dominated while this May has been a battle between strong troughs and ridges.

[Guest happ]

Ditto w/ no clearing in my area today.

 

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[Anti Marine Layer]

Got sunny, but it's quite breezy today.