2022-2023 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[Dan the Weatherman]

33 minutes ago, Thunder98 said:

It was a fartnado

By the way, I hope they get the Reaction Buttons fixed soon!

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by Dan the Weatherman

[Reg]

Rain occasionally gets light here but never fully stops. Getting hammered by wind since the "eye" of Hilary passed us earlier in the afternoon, though.

2.31" and still rising.

[Dan the Weatherman]

It is rather windy right now here in Orange with moderate to somewhat heavy rain continuing. I have my window open a bit and can really hear the wind howling through the trees.

Edited August 21, 2023 by Dan the Weatherman

[SilverFallsAndrew]

Fun reading y'alls reports from the storm. 

[Dan the Weatherman]

4 minutes ago, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Fun reading y'alls reports from the storm. 

Thanks! This has been a very interesting event for Socal, as summer rain in the coastal areas, especially to this magnitude, is quite rare here!

Hopefully the PNW gets some beneficial rains soon to help improve the air quality and help to extinguish the fires in the region!

Edited August 21, 2023 by Dan the Weatherman

[Anti Marine Layer]

Not much of a microclimate day today as pretty much everywhere from the coast to the desert was rainy and in the mid-upper 70s.

[Reg]

Winds are finally calming. No big gusts in about an hour. Rain has tapered off to a light, but continuous mist. 2.33" yesterday, another .02" since midnight.

Temperature was strange yesterday. The high temperature was at 12:00 AM and the low temperature was at 11:59 PM.

[Thunder98]

Crazy how I got not a single drop of rain , while 100 away they got several inches of rain.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Still raining this morning. 

[Thunder98]

Looks like a very deep tropical marine layer over SoCal.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Drizzling

[Thunder98]

Yesterday's high of 85F was tied for the warmest day of the year, On April 21st, the high was also 85F. Only the 3rd day with temps 80F or higher. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

We've gone from Hilary to Fogust

[Minny_Weather]

Got 1.86" at the airport yesterday, smashing the old record of 0.09". 

Mt. San Jac recorded over 11".

[Front Ranger]

54 minutes ago, IMoveALot_Weather said:

Got 1.86" at the airport yesterday, smashing the old record of 0.09". 

Mt. San Jac recorded over 11".

Certainly some very impressive totals in spots. Palm Springs had their wettest August day on record, and 2023 is now their second wettest August.

Seems like the flooding overall wasn't quite as catastrophic as predicted?

[Minny_Weather]

5 minutes ago, Front Ranger said:

Certainly some very impressive totals in spots. Palm Springs had their wettest August day on record, and 2023 is now their second wettest August.

Seems like the flooding overall wasn't quite as catastrophic as predicted?

It was not, and I think the unexpectedly fast movement of the low was the cause of that. It was supposed to be a 2-day event and only ended up being one day. There were definitely still impacts, particularly in the deserts where mud and debris in the roads still has some major highways closed.

[Thunder98]

Central Coast SSTs anomalies cooking right now!

 

 

[Thunder98]

High today was 82F, 7 degrees Warmer than expected.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Reacts are still broke. It's cloudy here.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Things have mostly dried out.

[Reg]

14 hours ago, IMoveALot_Weather said:

It was not, and I think the unexpectedly fast movement of the low was the cause of that. It was supposed to be a 2-day event and only ended up being one day. There were definitely still impacts, particularly in the deserts where mud and debris in the roads still has some major highways closed.

Hilary accelerated upon making landfall and continued speeding up for a while. We didn't get the convection that was expected, although the deserts did.

Also, somehow I missed this on Sunday afternoon.

 

[Dan the Weatherman]

2.75" fell here in Orange from late Saturday night August 19 to late Sunday night / very early Monday morning August 21 from Hilary. This is the largest one storm total I have ever had during the month of August. The amount actually exceeded the 2" to 2.5" total forecast for my area, although I believe 2"-3" were forecast at one point. The remnants of Dolores in July 2015 was quite impressive, too, and that was the wettest July total I have recorded.

[Reg]

On 8/20/2023 at 11:33 PM, SilverFallsAndrew said:

Fun reading y'alls reports from the storm. 

Some years ago, back on AccuWeather forums - we had a major winter storm pass through here in SoCal, and about 30 or 40 eastern US members were all watching our California Wx thread but none of them were saying anything (AccuWeather had a feature where you could see members watching a thread). Our storm was apparently expected to have a major effect on them as it passed through the continental US and they wanted to know how we Californians were dealing with it and watch our OBS. None of them wanted to speak to us, though. Interesting from our perspective.

[Reg]

3 hours ago, Dan the Weatherman said:

2.75" fell here in Orange from late Saturday night August 19 to late Sunday night / very early Monday morning August 21 from Hilary. This is the largest one storm total I have ever had during the month of August. The amount actually exceeded the 2" to 2.5" total forecast for my area, although I believe 2"-3" were forecast at one point. The remnants of Dolores in July 2015 was quite impressive, too, and that was the wettest July total I have recorded.

That event was incredible. I recorded 1.25" from it, so Hilary overtakes it as my biggest summer winner, and by over an inch too.

[Anti Marine Layer]

No more modified marine layer from Hilary today.

[Anti Marine Layer]

41 minutes ago, Anti Marine Layer said:

No more modified marine layer from Hilary today.

Actually there's still a little bit left.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Hotter today

[Anti Marine Layer]

Dead here since Hilary left.

[Thunder98]

August has now crossed the above avg for temps now for my area. Next looks toasty here, so that will send the avgs way up! This month is likely to be the first above avg month for temps since last September!

 

 

[seattleweatherguy]

Heading to the Bay Area in very early September. Anyone idea what the weather will be like?

[Thunder98]

25 minutes ago, seattleweatherguy said:

Heading to the Bay Area in very early September. Anyone idea what the weather will be like?

September is are the warmest month of the year for the Bay Area. So expect nice weather.

[Dan the Weatherman]

I see that the Reaction Buttons have finally been re-enabled!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Shadow is getting close.

Here's April 19.

We just painted our house.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Low clouds are back.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Shadows are getting noticeably longer every day.

[Thunder98]

It was drizzly this morning 

[Thunder98]

Despite the marine layer clouds not clearing until about 12:30PM today, the high still went up to 75F. Very nice , but somewhat muggy afternoon.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Should be getting hot again by next week.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Monterey had some serious trouble clearing out the marine layer today.

[Anti Marine Layer]

There are already some Halloween commercials.