2019 California and Southwest Weather Discussion Thread

[Reg]

Temperature isn't falling tonight at all, still 50F outside and cloudy. Some sprinkles nearby but nothing measurable.

[Reg]

I'm the only one here today it seems. Not much going on south of Point Conception though.

[Anti Marine Layer]

More sunshine here today. It looks like some of the snow is starting to melt

[Omegaraptor]

Blythe and Phoenix both got more rain than Portland for November 2019.

 

"It RaiNs AlL tHe TiMe In ThE PacIfiC NoRtHwEsT"

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lots of filtered sunshine today.

[Reg]

Lots of filtered sunshine today.

 

Same here, although it is still warmer today. The sky has basically been a thin overcast (just enough for sunshine to get through) all day.

[Anti Marine Layer]

A lot of the snow on Saddleback mountain has melted.

[Reg]

Yes, the snow on Agua Tibia Mountain south of me has melted as well.

 

But there still seems to be a decent amount left above 5000 feet this evening:

[Anti Marine Layer]

Cirrus clouds have thickened again, although they were still thinner to the south. Was expecting to see a somewhat colorful sunset, but it did not happen.

[Anti Marine Layer]

The atmospheric river is focused on Monterey and the Bay Area right now.

[Reg]

Today starting out the same way yesterday did.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Weather pattern is stuck for a while.

[Reg]

Sunshine not getting through the overcast today as well as it did yesterday.

[Anti Marine Layer]

It was cloudy for a while, but now the sun is out again.

[Reg]

@Mr Marine Layer: I went for a walk earlier today and took this low-quality pic of Santiago Peak/Saddleback from a hill in southern Temecula. Still some powder up there, snow on that mountain has looked different since the Holy Fire in August 2018 burned a lot of the vegetation.

 

 

Some distant views of the other mountain ranges from the same location:

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Getting hazy. Some areas reached the low 70s today, which was quite nice.

[Reg]

High was 71F here, but it has since become overcast again.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lots of rain for Monterey. 3.76".

[Reg]

Had a colorful sunset for about 30 seconds, I didn't get a picture of it.

[Anti Marine Layer]

[Reg]

2019-20 so far at my station (mostly). The period from Oct 21 - Nov 18 I was absent and my station was not saving the data to my computer, so I borrowed from the Murrieta WeatherCurrents station for that period for purposes of not having a huge gap in my graph. Precipitation was unaffected.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Atmospheric river seems to be gone.

[Reg]

Cloudy today.

[Reg]

I felt a couple of sprinkles while out walking today. Dark and grey all day.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Looks like the atmospheric river is reforming.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Thick overcast made it dark really fast. Sunset tomorrow is the earliest of the year.

[Reg]

Rain just started here, sooner than expected.

[Reg]

Warmer tonight, temperature is just hovering around 60F although the rain stopped a while ago. It surprisingly wasn't measurable.

[Reg]

Doppler radar shows a large band of rain currently moving onshore over Orange, L.A. and Ventura counties.

[Reg]

0.10" here so far.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Big surprise. It's raining this morning. Intensity seems to be picking up.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Most of the time the rain has been pretty light here, but there are periods of heavier rain every once in a while. It's nothing like the Thanksgiving storm and it will probably melt away what snow is left on Santiago Peak.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Rain is really coming down right now.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Still pouring although radar has nothing but green.

[Reg]

0.87" here, radar shows the rain is going to end soon.

[Reg]

Rain is stopping and I see blue sky to the west. I was hoping it would last a lot longer.

 

0.93", just short of predictions of between 1" and 1.5".

[Reg]

Still getting some residual showers. 0.95" now.

[Reg]

Rather quiet here today despite the rain. High snow levels scared everyone away.

 

Getting light rain right now that's not showing up on radar.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Our earliest sunset is about to happen.

 

Lots of light showers or drizzle this afternoon.

[Thunder98]

Wow, this storm overperformed in Orcutt, with 0.75" of rain. In fact I got more rain from the pop up Southwesterly flow heavy rain showers than the main frontal rain last night.