2022-2023 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[Thunder98]

1 hour ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

They need to add a bored reaction.

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[Mr Marine Layer]

Cloudy but warm today.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

I managed to lock myself out of my car today and racked up a $165 bill to get it opened. But hey, the weather was nice!

And the sun gave me this as a parting gift:

[Thunder98]

Currently 35F this morning in the Santa Maria Valley, colder than forecasted. Today it's forecasted to be near 80F! This is like Elko, NV type of diurnal range.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Getting hot out.

[Thunder98]

72F feels hot right now!

[Reg]

Seems to have peaked at 76F here today. Spent a good while washing my Oldsmobile for the first time in a while, including under the hood.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

High neared 80 here. Quite the shift from December!

[Thunder98]

It was 74 today

[Mr Marine Layer]

Sunlight now appears at 5 PM.

 

[Mr Marine Layer]

1 hour ago, Reg said:

Seems to have peaked at 76F here today. Spent a good while washing my Oldsmobile for the first time in a while, including under the hood.

Too bad you couldn't enjoy gloomy and cool weather for it.

[Reg]

16 hours ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Too bad you couldn't enjoy gloomy and cool weather for it.

Sometimes even sunny weather has its benefits. Washing cars for example like I was doing

[Mr Marine Layer]

28 minutes ago, Reg said:

Sometimes even sunny weather has its benefits. Washing cars for example like I was doing

They could have a song, "The gloom will come back tomorrow ... tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow, you're only a day away." that you sing whenever a shift from offshore flow to strong onshore flow is forecast.

[Thunder98]

The weather is nice, but very boring.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

The ornamental pears like it. Already spotted an early bloomer near my house. 
 

The warm / cold / wet / dry roller coaster of Californian winters can confuse the hell out of introduced deciduous trees.

[Mr Marine Layer]

1 hour ago, Thunder98 said:

The weather is nice, but very boring.

[Thunder98]

6 hours ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

[Mr Marine Layer]

Warm and cloudy again today.

[Thunder98]

Lots of altostratus clouds this morning.

[Reg]

Interesting clouds this morning:

[Mr Marine Layer]

Cutoff low ain't sure where to go.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Weatherman’s woe indeed. A few random sprinkles here and there is all we’re getting, then it’s bone dry for the next 10 days at least.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Sprinkling over me now. Weird (yet awesome) to get this balmy air with it in the middle of winter.

[Mr Marine Layer]

More sun today as the weatherman's woe continues to be unpredictable.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Hazy weather = onshore flow.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

I can still see the mountains but sure enough the inversion is reforming. 
 

The constants in life here: Death, taxes, and marine inversions.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Tsunami advisory

[Mr Marine Layer]

It's raining. 

[Reg]

Cloudy and windy at the same time this morning, a rare occurrence here.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Solar noon is at 12:00 PM today here. Alaska's northernmost city will get their first sunrise of 2022 next Saturday. 

[Pn1ct0g3n]

A curious situation sort of like Thursday: where cutoff low winds with scattered light showers and weak offshore winds are sort of…peacefully coexisting. But more widespread this time.

Got a decent shower here earlier this morning. 

[Mr Marine Layer]

Dewpoints have gone up.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

What a difference a source of subtropical moisture can make. There were days last Fogust that struggled to reach my high for today: 68.

[Reg]

Some sprinkles here, a light shower as I drove to the store and back. Nothing measurable, but "exciting" nonetheless.

[Thunder98]

Today felt like a weak monsoon surge in the Summer time with the big light rain drops and subtropical looking mid level clouds.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Really?

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Every bit helps!

[Thunder98]

The sky looks like something you see during the Monsoon Season again.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Warm and cloudy again.

[Thunder98]

Just had a light rain shower. Is this July or January? 

 

[Thunder98]

The Oxnard NWS evening discussion mentions thunderstorms. The psuedo-monsoon flow could bring surprises tomorrow?
 

[Dan the Weatherman]

I wonder if we will have some thunderstorm activity tomorrow that will be similar to the thunderstorm events here in Socal back in September and October?

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Would be a pretty epic way to start the year of 2022. This January has already packed some surprises.

[Reg]

Had some sprinkles last night and a light (non-measurable) shower roll through just now.

[Mr Marine Layer]

The low has been hanging out for more than a week now.

[Thunder98]

 

Orcutt is doing really good today!

[Reg]

After hours of quiet, a large area of rain just appeared over San Diego on doppler radar.

[Thunder98]

Ended up with 0.20” yesterday in Orcutt. Very nice surprise.

[Reg]

0.05" fell here in Murrieta between 3 and 4 AM this morning, while everyone was asleep. Seems to be over now according to doppler radar.

[Mr Marine Layer]

Foothill Ranch got 0.05" yesterday morning and nothing since than.