2024-2025 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Drizzling again. Utqiagvik sunrise is 3 days away.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Lots and lots and lots of low level moisture. 

[Dan the Weatherman]

Finally some rain!!

It has been raining off and on here in Orange for most of the day, even though there was a break in the mid-late afternoon. A decent band of rain went through this morning into the early afternoon. Then a very fine rain / heavy drizzle in the evening, followed by another heavier band later at night.

Edited January 21, 2024 by Dan the Weatherman

[Thunder98]

STD total is at 4.87", only 0.37" away from surpassing the 2006-2007 water year total

Picked up 0.25" from the 2nd wave, had some decent downpours last evening, but need more!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Part 1 1/2 of the storm is here now.

[Anti Marine Layer]

It is raining heavily with the morning lighting process slow to take place.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Surprise surprise. It's raining cats and dogs and it's still dead here.

[Anti Marine Layer]

The heavy stuff is moving into San Diego County now.

The deadness is a plague that affects the whole state of California.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Another heavy rain shower passed over us.

[Thunder98]

Final rain total from the 3 storms is 1.04". Underperformer, but no longer a bust.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sun rises for the first time in 2024 in Utqiagvik, AK tomorrow. 58 minutes of daylight to come. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

RECORD EVENT REPORT...PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
800 PM PST MON JAN 22 2024

...DAILY PRECIP RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON JAN 22 2024 ...

LOCATION             NEW RECORD         OLD RECORD        PERIOD OF RECORD

SAN DIEGO               2.70         1.53 IN 1967              1875
OCEANSIDE HARBOR        2.10         0.98 IN 2010              1910
VISTA                   1.80         1.08 IN 2010              1957
CHULA VISTA             1.56         1.15 IN 2010              1918
RAMONA                  1.53         1.18 IN 2017              1974
ALPINE                  2.08         0.85 IN 1996              1951
EL CAJON                2.74         2.48 IN 1909              1899
CAMPO                   3.22         1.68 IN 2010              1948
THERMAL                 0.89         0.25 IN 2010              1950

[Anti Marine Layer]

UPDATE

RECORD EVENT REPORT...PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
200 AM PST TUE JAN 23 2024

...DAILY PRECIP RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON JAN 22 2024 ...

LOCATION             NEW RECORD         OLD RECORD        PERIOD OF RECORD

SAN DIEGO               2.73         1.53 IN 1967              1875
OCEANSIDE HARBOR        2.10         0.98 IN 2010              1910
VISTA                   1.83         1.08 IN 2010              1957
CHULA VISTA             1.56+        1.15 IN 2010              1918
RAMONA                  1.65         1.18 IN 2017              1974
ALPINE                  2.57         0.85 IN 1996              1951
EL CAJON                2.98         2.48 IN 1909              1899
CAMPO                   3.22         1.68 IN 2010              1948
THERMAL                 1.00         0.25 IN 2010              1950

THE AMOUNT RECORDED AT SAN DIEGO REPRESENTS THE FOURTH WETTEST DAY ON
RECORD (SINCE 1850) AND THE WETTEST JANUARY DAY ON RECORD.

+ GREATER RAINFALL AT CHULA VISTA WAS LIKELY.

[Thunder98]

Likely to our first 70's of the year this weekend

[Anti Marine Layer]

2 hours to go

[Thunder98]

I'm loving this forecast!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Solar noon in Utqiagvik.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Marine layer sticks around for a few more days.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Last time the sun came up in Utqiagvik, AK (before today) our sunset was at 4:46 PM. Today it was at 5:12 PM. Solar noon shifted from 11:35 AM to 12:02 PM during the same time.

Sunrise here will finally be earlier than last Winter Solstice on Friday.

[Anti Marine Layer]

New eddy is developing. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Still got a few more gloomy days on the way.

[Anti Marine Layer]

There is now an abundance of thick high clouds. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Quite cloudy today.

[SpaceRace22]

Pretty much a lock now that SoCal is getting soaked next week. All 3 major Ensemble suites got significantly wetter on today's 12z runs, too. The 12z Canadian Ensembles are particularly interesting. Some members show a full year's worth of rain in 3 days at LAX. 9.3" of QPF in 24 hours, lol.

[Thunder98]

Picked up 0.09" today, was forecasted to get 0.01 or less

[Anti Marine Layer]

44 minutes ago, SpaceRace22 said:

Pretty much a lock now that SoCal is getting soaked next week. All 3 major Ensemble suites got significantly wetter on today's 12z runs, too. The 12z Canadian Ensembles are particularly interesting. Some members show a full year's worth of rain in 3 days at LAX. 9.3" of QPF in 24 hours, lol.

El Nino may be waking up.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Declination now changing faster than Equation of Time

Time and Date

1/24/2024 8:18:28 PM

Solar Declination

19.09 S

Equation of Time

-12.13

Minutes for Solar Declination to change by .01

59.13

Minutes for Equation of Time to change by .01

60.36

[Thunder98]

Its drizzling outside!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Thick high clouds are gone

[Dan the Weatherman]

2.04" fell here in Orange with the last storm sequence from last Saturday to Monday.

[Thunder98]

Feels like a May Grey morning with drizzle and deep marine layer. Picked up 0.03” of drizzle last night

[Anti Marine Layer]

The May Gray should be outta here by tomorrow afternoon. 

11 months until Christmas. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

It's drizzling here too. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Low clouds are filling back in, but there was enough of a break to allow the sun to shine in the window after making it around the edge of the next door skyscraper for the first time since November 17

Actually it should have made it around the next door skyscraper yesterday already, but it was overcast all day yesterday. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

A cloud arrived at 4:59 PM to ruin the 5:00 shadow. Stupid marine layer should be gone tomorrow. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Most of the low clouds are gone now, but they may come and go through the night. 

[Dan the Weatherman]

4 hours ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

Most of the low clouds are gone now, but they may come and go through the night. 

The flow is forecast to turn offshore and some Santa Ana winds are expected over the next couple of days, especially inland, so I wouldn't expect the marine layer to be present over the next few days, except for possibly along the immediate coast.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Last Winter Solstice sunrise and sunset: 6:51 AM and 4:46 PM

Today's sunrise and sunset: 6:51 AM and 5:15 PM.

[Thunder98]

WC has me with 10 days in a row with rain chances!