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6 hours ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

A bit strange since things cleared out a few hours after sunset.

Streets were wet here for a little while overnight.

Humidity has come crashing down into the teens this afternoon and there is a potent smell of smoke in the air. Onshore flow is supposed to return late this evening according to the NWS. Talk about a flip-flop pattern.

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18 hours ago, Omegaraptor said:

D**n. The Sacramento Valley town of Willows just got its first rain in 197 days. 

They average roughly 21” a year. Driest year on record is 1976 at 4.30” YTD and they are almost an inch behind that.

This season is really getting off to a rotten start statewide!

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From this morning's NWS San Diego forecast discussion:

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Looking ahead to the final week of the year, we are seeing some  
  indications that a wetter period may be at hand for SoCal. The  
  various ensemble members of the ECMWF/GFS reflect this with almost a  
  50-50 split of wet and dry solutions over SoCal. Better consensus  
  however is achieved with the 12Z deterministic runs of the ECMWF/  
  GFS/Canadian models. All show an active Pacific storm track dipping  
  far enough south to get us wet. 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, FAR_Weather said:

Hazy by Winter standards. During the Summer it's worse than that.

During the late summer, you usually can’t even see the mountains at all, shrouded in a dense layer of smog most of the time. It’s worst in September, on average.

 

 

 

 

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FINALLY some exciting weather to talk about here in Socal!

We had quite a light show here in Orange for about 20 minutes or so with frequent lightning and thunder between 1 and 1:30 am. It was raining quite heavily for a while, but now that the lightning has stopped it is now raining moderately. This is definitely the first more significant rain event of the season.

 

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Just had a burst of heavy rain accompanied by very strong winds. The rain was blowing almost completely sideways. My bedroom window is letting in a ton of rainwater just now around where my window A/C is installed, that never happened in past years because my window faces a direction where rain almost never comes from. I've just secured it with towels.

0.12" so far.

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