2017 California/Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Dead day today.

 

Despite the high clouds, today was a very warm day. Rainy season 2017-18 is off to a very dry start, which explains the sentence above.

[Guest happ]

Rain being reported in Santa Barbara & healthy amounts of precipitation in Bay Area [over 2 inches in places]. Warm morning due to clouds. 

 

Wednesday: 81/ 60

 

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Probably not much of the rain will make it down here. Today is supposed to be mostly cloudy with highs in the mid 70s, which is quite unusual for this time of year.

[Guest happ]

Clouds have been making for beautiful skies. Sunrise this morning in Borrego Springs.

 

Anza-Borrego DTC photo

[Anti Marine Layer]

80 degrees on a day with almost no sun in mid-November is something that does not happen very often here, especially considering that by this weekend, the evenings will be darker than any day in the entire upcoming winter season.

 

Barrow, which has a strange new name, has 2 days left of the sun rising and setting this year.

[Guest happ]

80 degrees on a day with almost no sun in mid-November is something that does not happen very often here, especially considering that by this weekend, the evenings will be darker than any day in the entire upcoming winter season.

 

Barrow, which has a strange new name, has 2 days left of the sun rising and setting this year.

 

It doesn't happen that often but lately we have been under the flow of air out of the tropics. When a deep low is circulating in the GOA, it can help advect warm air into California. I just wish the air was saturated with moisture like what happened in NorCal today.

 

80/ 61

[Anti Marine Layer]

If you think this evening is just about as dark as the year's shortest day, you are correct.

 

We also got some rain overnight, although it did not amount to much.

[Guest happ]

Reservoirs are in good condition for late autumn; yesterday's storm in NorCal was very impressive. Though the front washed out before entering SoCal at least some areas picked up a little rainfall. 

 

[Guest happ]

Even for Death Valley this noon hour temp seems too warm for mid-November. Next week may see similar warmth across SoCal

 

DEATH VALLEY,    N/A     89  44  20 CALM        N/A  

[Guest happ]

I wonder if they are keeping Oroville low because of the spillway issues last winter.

Yes, here's the latest as of Oct

[Anti Marine Layer]

As expected the sun was already behind the low hills at the time I left the office at 4:38 PM, but some sunshine was still on the top of the skyscrapers. Enjoy the darkest evenings of the year now until after the Winter Solstice.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Looks like a marine layer has developed before the offshore winds should push it out later tonight, but the winds may also ride over the inversion.

[Guest happ]

Again, very little if any rain but beautiful skies including this rainbow in San Diego this morning

 

73/ 61

 

NWS_DS photo

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Dense fog this morning. Where is the offshore flow? Furthermore, where is the dense fog advisory?

[Guest happ]

Wind direction makes the difference within 10 miles.

1PM

CAMARILLO      SUNNY     81  23  11 NE16      30.09F                 
OXNARD AIRPORT SUNNY     67  55  65 W13       30.10F                 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sun will rise for the last time of the year in Utqiaġvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow). It's up from about 12:46 PM to 1:36 PM and does not fully go above the horizon. Most likely it will be cloudy there anyway, and Pt. Barrow is facing the wrong way to get a sunrise off the ocean.

 

Meanwhile it's very warm here, but it will be dark before we know it.

[Guest happ]

Sun will rise for the last time of the year in Utqiaġvik, Alaska (formerly Barrow). It's up from about 12:46 PM to 1:36 PM and does not fully go above the horizon. Most likely it will be cloudy there anyway, and Pt. Barrow is facing the wrong way to get a sunrise off the ocean.

 

Meanwhile it's very warm here, but it will be dark before we know it.

 

NWS is forecasting 90's by Wednesday. But these short days allow quick cool downs at dusk. December could produce some very cold temps per long range models. 

[Thunder98]

Its a chilly 41F Coldest temp of the season so far.

[Thunder98]

Temp dropped again to 39F. First low below 40F of the season so far!

 

[Guest happ]

Lots of sub-freezing temps this morning in the high desert & upper interior valleys while ever-persistent night winds prevented minimums even below 50F and barely below 60 in windy areas. Frazier Mt recorded a -38 dew point temp at 7AM.

[Guest happ]

Basically nothing to look forward to for the rest of the month  

[Guest happ]

It is noteworthy that the dry cold air above 2000' in upper desert was negated by offshore winds 44 miles south. 

 

Lancaster : 65 / 22 / 0.00

Palmdale : 66 / 29 / 0.00

Getty Center : 75 / 60 / 0.00
Santa Monica Pier : 70 / 62 / 0.00

UCLA : 78 / 62 / 0.00

 

Saturday: 78/ 56

[Anti Marine Layer]

Today was not quite as warm as yesterday, but still nice (or very disappointing if you want rain and cool weather)

[Guest happ]

There is good news for the snowpack at least; hope it doesn't melt away soon. 

 

NWS_SD

[Dan the Weatherman]

NWS is forecasting 90's by Wednesday. But these short days allow quick cool downs at dusk. December could produce some very cold temps per long range models. 

 

I am really hoping for a pattern change after this warm to hot spell that will lead to some real rain in Socal. We usually get rain sometime in November or December in La Nina years.

[Thunder98]

The high yesterday was 69F, the low was 39F. The 1st sub 40F low of the season so far.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Chilly morning today, but the heat is coming soon.

[Guest happ]

Chilly morning today, but the heat is coming soon.

 

Looks like USC came pretty close to the 40's based on available data.

 

Sunday: 78/ 59

 

Richard Dickert @RickatFox

[Anti Marine Layer]

Late season heat wave. Sun is more than 20 degrees south of the equator and today's sunset is about two in a half minutes later than the earliest sunset of the year, but Winter Solstice is still a full month away.

 

San Diego will likely record its first dry November since 1980. Need to hope for some December deluges with periods of nice weather in between them.

[Guest happ]

Warm/ windy all night bodes for a very warm day due to stationary high over Baja. La Nina misery.

 

Monday: 77/ 55

 

 

@jaycordeira

[Guest happ]

You know you live in a shity climate when the only noteworthy weather are heat waves 

[Guest happ]

Missed 90° by two degrees though other nearby locations broke records in the 90's.

 

88/ 63

[Anti Marine Layer]

They should at least increase the length of the day if it's going to be hot. Next Monday begins the 15-day period of 4:42 PM sunsets in Lake Forest. By then it should have cooled off.

[Guest happ]

NNE winds kicked up several hours ago, dew point is 18°.

[Anti Marine Layer]

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/probability-of-a-white-thanksgiving

[Guest happ]

Staying windy which is not good especially considering I have only recorded 0.20 of rain since July 1st. High fire danger tonight.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Surprisingly no Red Flag Warnings out there.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Thanksgiving Eve is not an official holiday, but we have half a day of work today. To the retailers and some fanatics who are willing to kill or risk getting killed for cheap deals, Black Friday is a bigger holiday than Thanksgiving, but unfortunately they have been starting that on Thanksgiving the last few years.

 

Anyway, looks to be a short hot day. 20 minutes longer than Winter Solstice. At least no triple digits expected.

[Guest happ]

Yikes, this station is across the road from the Pacific ocean.

 

9:00AM

POINT MUGU SUNNY 88 37 16 E16 30.06S

[Guest happ]

Great, this ridge is followed by another next week