2018 California/Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Rainbow this morning.

 

 

 

Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

San Diego Airport got 0.80". Downtown L.A. got 0.02" until they picked up another 0.07" tonight. Storm was too far west this morning and too far south this afternoon, but we just got a pretty good rain shower here now.

[Anti Marine Layer]

It is really coming down now after a slow start yesterday. Downtown L.A is up to 1.35" now.

[Anti Marine Layer]

The heavy rain seems to have broken the Fullerton Airport rain gauge. John Wayne Airport is up to 1.81" with most of that in the last 2 hours. My smartphone just yelled at me about a Flash Flood Watch

 

 

Totals for Fullerton will be M.

[Jesse]

Interesting article about Carr Fire "Firenado":

 

https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article222687285.html

 

Shower activity picked up here in late afternoon as east wind finally was conquered and now the low-level flow is southerly, making for a bit of orographic enhancement. 0.40" accumulation so far.

My global climate Professor has probably mentioned the California “firenado” as a completely new weather phenomenon and a slam dunk result of climate change about 20 times this semester. Seems a little sensationalistic.

 

Not to downplay how terrible the Carr Fire was in terms of human suffering, but I’d imagine that sort of weather phenomena can and has occurred in large wildfires throughout all of history if the right conditions were present. Makes for great doomsday imagery though!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Getting darker as the day goes on.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Not all Republicans think climate change is a hoax, but the Democrats use it as propaganda to scare people and make themselves look good. With the last couple of years we've had, there is definitely some climate change, but whether or not it's as horrible as they say remains to be seen. The media always likes to exaggerate things to scare people. Remember when they thought Y2K would be a horrible disaster?

 

If people are so worried about climate change, stop driving those massive SUVs to work.

 

Anyway, I don't want to put too much political stuff in here.

 

It has sure been a crazy day, and they only have rainfall totals as of 9:40 AM.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Over 3 inches for John Wayne Airport and does not seem to be letting up any time soon. Some places could break their all time daily rainfall record.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Rain has finally stopped here. Took a walk in the nice fresh air.

[Thunder98]

There has been a constant steady light rain for hours now.

[Jesse]

https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=lox&print=yes&prod=rrmlox

 

Nice list of totals. Great to see Southern California get a good soaking.

[Anti Marine Layer]

L.A. is at 211% of its normal rainfall this far in the season, compared to 5% last year at this time during the December fires.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Why doesn't Dan the Weatherman have anything to say about the storm?

[Anti Marine Layer]

The storm today behaved like an atmospheric river. It's still raining here, but most of it is light. The heavy stuff is moving through San Diego.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Things are back to normal here with the sun shining and absolutely nothing going on in the California thread. We gotta invite some people here from the weatherwest before California goes completely dead here.

 

I have noticed there are no updates to the weatherwest site either with the last post there still about the Camp Fire. Not even these storms could get the blog author to post a new article.

[Minny_Weather]

D**n. Looking at this thread almost makes me feel bad for making Happ delete his account.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Day started off nicely before some thick high clouds moved in early afternoon.

[Dan the Weatherman]

Why doesn't Dan the Weatherman have anything to say about the storm?

 

I have been posting quite a bit on Weather West (using the same handle and avatar), but have forgotten to post here as of late. I need to remember to post here every now and then. It is pretty easy to copy comments from one forum to another, and that would be an easy way for me to post in both places.

 

Anyway, this last storm provided a very good soaking in Socal and I picked up 2.47" here in Orange. The ground is still quite wet here in my yard as of today from this storm.

 

I hope we get at least a couple more storms before this month is over. So far this fall has been so much better than last fall, which was almost a complete shutout as far as rain goes here in my area.

[Dan the Weatherman]

Things are back to normal here with the sun shining and absolutely nothing going on in the California thread. We gotta invite some people here from the weatherwest before California goes completely dead here.

 

I have noticed there are no updates to the weatherwest site either with the last post there still about the Camp Fire. Not even these storms could get the blog author to post a new article.

 

I believe the moderator of Weather West has had a busier schedule lately and hasn't had as much free time to post as many updates.

 

By the way, do you ever post over on Weather West or just on this blog?

[Anti Marine Layer]

Today is the last day of our 4:42 PM sunsets. In the last 2 weeks, sunset has not changed much at all, but it will be advancing forward a little more quickly now. On November 27, which was the first day of the sun setting at 4:42 PM, sunrise was at 6:33 AM and solar noon was at 11:38 AM. Today sunrise is at 6:45 AM and solar noon is at 11:44 AM.

 

 

There is much more sunshine today with only a few low clouds.

[Thunder98]

Weather looking bland for a while....

[Anti Marine Layer]

It's a one day Santa Ana Wind event today.

[Anti Marine Layer]

California is so dead. Today was a gray day, but the sunset was spectacular.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Six days to go until Winter Solstice and it's a warm December day with yesterday's high clouds having migrated into Mexico.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Weather looking bland for a while....

Bland if you're waiting for storms and other exciting weather, but today was a spectacular day with clear skies, warm sunshine, and temperatures in the low-mid 70s.

 

I'm off between Christmas and New Year's Day, so hoping for some more nice weather, and then hopefully we can get back into a wet pattern again in January.

[Requiem]

Bland if you're waiting for storms and other exciting weather, but today was a spectacular day with clear skies, warm sunshine, and temperatures in the low-mid 70s.

 

I'm off between Christmas and New Year's Day, so hoping for some more nice weather, and then hopefully we can get back into a wet pattern again in January.

 

You guys have a storm on the way tomorrow....

[Requiem]

"Storm?"  No "storm" here, unless you mean Eureka or something.  The vast majority of posters in the California subforum (like, all both of us) are in SoCal.  There's a 20% chance of showers on Monday.  That hardly counts as a "storm," although the way things have gone overall the last few years, beggars can't be choosers.

 

Yeah, I was thinking Bay Area north. 

[Thunder98]

80% chance of rain Sunday night.

 

[Dan the Weatherman]

"Storm?"  No "storm" here, unless you mean Eureka or something.  The vast majority of posters in the California subforum (like, all both of us) are in SoCal.  There's a 20% chance of showers on Monday.  That hardly counts as a "storm," although the way things have gone overall the last few years, beggars can't be choosers.

 

I find it hard to get excited for a measly 20% chance of rain here in Orange, especially during our rainy season. Most of the time when there is a 20% chance, it doesn't even rain anyway. Only during the summer monsoon season do I get in any way excited about a 20% chance of rain.

[Thunder98]

For the Central Coast, the NWS is forecast 0.25-0.5" tonight.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Not quite as warm today as yesterday, but still very nice.

[Anti Marine Layer]

We were just a little bit more than .10 degrees away from the lowest midday sun angle at solar noon today.

 

There's a chance Fullerton Airport could be warmer for the winter solstice next Friday than it was on the summer solstice. More likely closer to the beach.

[Thunder98]

Can’t wait until the sun angles gets higher again and the days getting longer.

[Thunder98]

Storm total is 0.31". Just as expected. Not a bust either!

 

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Rain has started to fall, and it's pretty heavy, but unlikely to last very long.

[Anti Marine Layer]

A few places got measurable rain yesterday. Huntington Beach at 0.03" and Lake Forest at 0.02" were among the top places.

 

We have had May Gray and June Gloom events with more rain than this past "storm".

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lake Forest sunset tonight is about the same as one month ago (within a few seconds), but the sunrise is about 23 minutes later. On the solstice, sunset and sunrise will both be about one half minute later than on the previous day, pretty much anywhere south of the Arctic Circle.

 

Saddleback Mountain was noticeably lighter today at 4:45 PM than in early December.

 

Nice day today, but the afternoon cooled down quickly.

[Anti Marine Layer]

The Winter Solstice (2:23 PM PST on 12/21/2018) is nearing, with a maximum solar declination of around 23.43562 S. Not much change in the declination left at all, and that's why it translates to "the sun stands still".

 

Also notice the second component of the analemma (Equation of Time) is changing about as fast as it does any time of the year, so despite the least daylight tomorrow, we have the longest solar days of the year now.

 

Time and Date: 12/20/2018 5:38:03 PM

Solar Declination: 23.43269 S

Equation of Time: 2.15

Minutes for Solar Declination to change by .01: 2123.06

Minutes for Equation of Time to change by .01: 29.09

[TT-SEA]

The Winter Solstice (2:23 PM PST on 12/21/2018) is nearing, with a maximum solar declination of around 23.43562 S. Not much change in the declination left at all, and that's why it translates to "the sun stands still".

 

Also notice the second component of the analemma (Equation of Time) is changing about as fast as it does any time of the year, so despite the least daylight tomorrow, we have the longest solar days of the year now.

 

Time and Date: 12/20/2018 5:38:03 PM

Solar Declination: 23.43269 S

Equation of Time: 2.15

Minutes for Solar Declination to change by .01: 2123.06

Minutes for Equation of Time to change by .01: 29.09

 

 

Was just looking at Mexico City sunrise and sunset times... they actual peak at a sun angle of 90 degrees on May 17th and then it declines a little in June... and then peaks at 90 degrees again on July 25th.

 

I assume that between May 17th - July 25th... the sun is technically in the northern sky in the middle of the day.  Although it probably appears straight overhead.

 

Keep going south... and Bogota Columbia has a peak sun angle of 90 degrees on April 1st and September 10th.   And reaches a low of 71.2 degrees on the summer solstice.   That would be so confusing!    

[GHweatherChris]