2022-2023 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Low clouds were tardy on their arrival into the Inland Empire this morning. 

[Thunder98]

hahahahahahahahaha! This marine layer streching all the way inland!

[Anti Marine Layer]

33 minutes ago, Thunder98 said:

hahahahahahahahaha! This marine layer streching all the way inland!

Unlike last weekend, we're all in this together.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Yup it’s deep all right you know it is when you can see the mountains

[Anti Marine Layer]

The unofficial start of summer always happens a few days before the start of meteorological summer.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Clearing better than expected today, but it will probably come rushing back in well before sunset.

[Reg]

Marine layer burnt off here inland around 11 AM

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Yup today is a tease of summer like conditions. (We had a couple others earlier in the month too.) We got good clearing here too so I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts.

[Thunder98]

The marine layer was higher and thinner today, thus it cleared out late morning. Temps reached low 70’s today!

[Anti Marine Layer]

Cleared out nicely today. Either a weaker inversion or some good mixing ahead of the trough. 

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Giving us this beautiful sunset too!

[Thunder98]

5 minutes ago, Pn1ct0g3n said:

Giving us this beautiful sunset too!

Same here

[Anti Marine Layer]

ML is slow to return tonight. 

[Thunder98]

The marine layer is shallow this morning in my neck of the woods.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Back to the eddy.

[Anti Marine Layer]

All areas west of the mountains clouded over once again with the forceful eddy intensely jamming the low clouds into the passes and increasing the likelihood of foggy car crashes.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Warmer on New Year's Day

[Anti Marine Layer]

Reverse springs are a common feature of La Ninas.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Pretty much a carbon copy of last weekend.

[Reg]

Marine layer lasting a lot longer here inland today, only just now is sunshine starting to poke through.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

There is a silver lining to these deep marine layers in that when they break up into scattered or broken coverage, it’s often warmer and calmer than those shallow ones that tend to have a stiff, icy breeze within them.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Reverse clearing attempt.

[Thunder98]

Hmm interesting. June 2011 redux?

[Anti Marine Layer]

So close

[Anti Marine Layer]

Wasted no time filling back in.

[Reg]

Only 73F today and mostly cloudy - pleasant.

May 2022 is about to end as my third consecutive May with no measurable rainfall at my weather station. Interestingly, the dry Mays I recorded in both 2020 and 2021, subsequently June did feature some measurable rainfall here those years.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Looks like we're stuck in a lousy weekend pattern for a while, possibly until the Winter Solstice arrives in Australia. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Weaker invesion

[Anti Marine Layer]

Intense battle between the northwest flow and the eddy this morning. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Dusty in the desert.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Sun’s out but there’s a chilly breeze a blowin.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

2011 was interesting: from what I recall the summer started out relatively gloomy and cool (reminiscent of 2010 at times) but somewhere around the second half of July things changed. I remember freezing my butt off at UCLA’s orientation in the morning around mid month but it warmed up soon after that.

August and September were exceptionally hot at times. In late September one of the craziest heatwaves of my life hit, with even coastal areas affected. Humidity was high and some places approached 120F! I attended a wedding in Somis which is in Ventura County and I felt like I was in Miami that night it was so humid!

The heat lasted well into October, too. It was the teaser for several more scorchers in that decade. Especially 2014, 2015, and 2018.

for years after that I almost never needed a jacket on summer mornings ; it felt like a relic of the 90s and 2000s. 2020 changed that heh.

[Anti Marine Layer]

2003 was the gloomiest June ever.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

24 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

2003 was the gloomiest June ever.

The early 2000s saw another extended period of on and off again La Niña and a cooler Pacific that led to bad glooms. I remember a blogger named Matthew Strickland bemoaning the conditions in SD, where he felt like “I’m starting to think I live in Seattle” and “the entire county” was covered. He described it reaching as far as Pine Valley which is over 3000 feet up.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Nice afternoon 

[NWbyNW]

Really cool cloud formation in Pacifica, CA today!  It's like a wave!!! 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Already a new bleeping eddy.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

They have warmed things a little bit, at least within the Bight Zone. It’s about where it should be at the end of May:

 

[Anti Marine Layer]

The deep marine layer should be having its last hurrah for a few days.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

It may dawn clear but it seldom stays that way.