2019 California and Southwest Weather Discussion Thread

[Reg]

Showers stopped before midnight. All remaining moisture seems confined to the mountains now.

[Bonk]

Lake Forest has over an inch with this storm so far. We are getting orographic enhancement from the Santa Ana Mountains here.

 

 

That orographic lift got us 1.46" in Modjeska Canyon.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lake Forest got a total of 1.15" from this last storm.

[Reg]

0.67" at my place when it was all said and done. It was nice but a bit too short-lived for me, I prefer long, drawn-out storms.

 

Looking forward to more rain later this week, and potentially heavy rain on Friday.

[Anti Marine Layer]

0.67" at my place when it was all said and done. It was nice but a bit too short-lived for me, I prefer long, drawn-out storms.

 

Looking forward to more rain later this week, and potentially heavy rain on Friday.

 

How long? So that you're cooped up inside the house all day or a few days?

[Reg]

How long? So that you're cooped up inside the house all day or a few days?

I suspected that might provoke a response from you 

 

While not as mobile, I still enjoy a constant rain for a few days. It brings a rare, unique atmosphere that I find pleasant. Especially if I have the fireplace going.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Marine layer refuses to budge. A bit early in the year for this kind of persistent overcast.

[Reg]

NWS San Diego says the KNKX radar will be offline for the next three weeks while it is being upgraded. I wish they had waited until the summer to do it. Santiago Peak blocks KSOX from seeing my area and all the other radars are too far away.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Expected rainfall totals have been lowered.

[Reg]

Getting darker and windier now, despite it being 2 PM.

[Reg]

Raining here already, hours ahead of schedule.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sun is coming out here, but we got a few sprinkles earlier.

[Reg]

Looking great out there right now. 0.01" for the day.

 

[Reg]

Another band of rain just passed over us, according to radar, but didn't drop anything at all here.

[Thunder98]

So much thunder and lightning in the last hour. 0.43" so far today. It feels like Florida right now.

[Reg]

Past midnight and still no rain. Radar showing the moisture plume hitting to the northwest but missing areas south and east of L.A. entirely.

[Reg]

Okay. In the space of just 30 seconds, we went from no rain, to very heavy rain (for about 10 seconds), and back to no rain again. Didn't register in my rain gauge yet everything is soaked outside, whereas it was dry before.

 

I've never seen a burst of rain begin and end so quickly before.

 

Edit: Thunder here now.

[Reg]

Getting more consistent clusters of showers now. 0.03"

 

Edit (3:21 AM): Some very close-proximity thunder here.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Very pathetic storm so far with just a few brief heavy showers.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Cold front is bringing some heavy rain now, but the atmospheric river brought almost nothing.

[Reg]

Just 0.25" since midnight and I see patches of blue sky now. Doppler radar is emptying out.

 

This storm might have been a dud. Most of the energy was concentrated north and west of Los Angeles, with precipitation totals falling off sharply to the south. San Diego only has 0.01" so far.

 

This is one of the rare winter storms where orographic lift did not seem to occur or play any part at all - many mountain and foothill locations were even drier than some valley locations, oddly enough.

[Reg]

Getting intermittent light showers that aren't showing up on radar at all. Hey, I'm not complaining.

[Anti Marine Layer]

More rain this evening, but nothing too spectacular. Believe it or not, Daylight Saving Time starts on Sunday.

[Reg]

Just had another minute of light rain, 0.32" for the day.

[Reg]

Heavy rain right now for the first time in a while. 0.34" yesterday, 0.02' in the last 60 seconds since midnight

 

Edit: I was on the receiving end of a direct hit of whatever cell just passed over my area. 0.10" in just 9 minutes.

 

Still going. 0.15" since midnight (only 20 minutes ago) and rising. This is the disadvantage of KNKX being down - I can't see what's hitting my area on radar at all, there's just nothing. The only other weather station online that I can see nearby currently reporting rain is De Luz, about 10 miles directly southwest of me. 0.12" there since midnight, they're getting hit by the same thing that's hitting my location right now. 0.17" now

[Reg]

0.25" at my location since midnight, the rain has stopped for now. Wish I could see what the heck was hitting me on radar.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Just 13 days until spring begins, although this seems to be an endless winter. 37 consecutive days without reaching 70 F in Downtown L.A. and not expected to do so anytime in the foreseeable future. Palm Springs set a record for number of consecutive days below 80 F earlier this year. I know many people are loving it though.

 

1983 El Nino was extremely wet, but it had some hot, dry periods in between the rainy weather. This winter has had almost no sunny days. 69 felt hot last week in the sun as we've become accustomed to so much cold.

[SilverFallsAndrew]

The rain down there really clears out the air doesn't it? 

 

I remember flying into LAX on 2/1/2015 and coming in over snow covered mountains and green hillsides. It was incredibly beautiful and didn't really fit the profile of how I remembered LA. 

[Dan the Weatherman]

NWS San Diego says the KNKX radar will be offline for the next three weeks while it is being upgraded. I wish they had waited until the summer to do it. Santiago Peak blocks KSOX from seeing my area and all the other radars are too far away.

 

I would have thought that they would wait at least until the May Gray / June Gloom season to work on the radar. I guess they had this scheduled well ahead of time, and couldn't wait until later.

[Dan the Weatherman]

0.78" fell here in Orange with this last storm from Tuesday night to Wednesday, bringing my season total (July 1 to present) to 19.93".

[Anti Marine Layer]

San Diego only got 0.03" from the last storm.

[Reg]

Got 0.02" overnight, otherwise pretty uneventful. Next real chance of rain begins on Sunday.

[Reg]

Windy today. Doesn't look like we'll be getting any residual showers after all. So much for totals of between 0.10" and 0.25".

[Anti Marine Layer]

Very cold and windy for this last work day of Pacific Standard Time. Sunset (in standard time) is about the same time it is was (in daylight time) right before we ended Daylight Saving Time last fall and sunrise (in standard time) is about the same time it was the day we started Pacific Standard Time. Mornings will be dark next week.

[Anti Marine Layer]

NWS Los Angeles forecast says we could be above normal by next weekend. NWS San Diego says no.

[Reg]

Predictions of between 0.10" and 0.25" here again through tomorrow night. If it goes anything like the last "storm", that means we should get about 0.01".

[Anti Marine Layer]

Time change tonight unless you're in Arizona or Hawaii. It was another chilly day with no sign of the season that begins in 11 days.

[Anti Marine Layer]

November 4 was 84 F and the sunset was at 4:55 PM. Tomorrow, the temperature may fail to reach 60 F and the sunset will be at 6:54 PM, which is later than Fall Equinox.

[Reg]

Just out of interest, I still have the minute-by-minute data from my weather station back during the December 30-31 2014 snowstorm we got here. The rain transitioned to full-blown snow precisely at the 33.3 F mark, as I recall it. It shows that precipitation continued falling to noon that day, but actually it had stopped after 5 AM - the snow accumulating in my rain gauge bucket gradually melted and produced precipitation readings throughout the morning. Note the high temperature of only 47 F later that day, and that was in full sunshine.

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Another miserably frigid day, where walking my dog becomes a chore instead of a pleasure. Don't know how I would survive a Minnesota winter.