2022-2023 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[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.

[Anti Marine Layer]

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

[Anti 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.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Tsunami advisory

[Anti Marine Layer]

It's raining. 

[Reg]

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

[Anti 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. 

[Anti 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.

[Saruman]

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

[Anti Marine Layer]

Really?

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Every bit helps!

[Saruman]

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

[Anti Marine Layer]

Warm and cloudy again.

[Saruman]

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

 

[Saruman]

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.

[Anti Marine Layer]

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

[Saruman]

 

Orcutt is doing really good today!

[Reg]

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

[Saruman]

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.

[Anti Marine Layer]

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

[Reg]

1 hour ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

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

We both matched for once.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Not much to see here. A bust.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Deep ML remains. 

[Saruman]

I hope we finally have a warm, not as windy spring this year.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Marine crap is alive and well this morning.

[Saruman]

Very foogy and damp this morning 

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Reverse clearing in January. 2022 is already getting a stamp on its 2020s card.

[AquariusRadar]

Here is an interesting article hydro battery - about the hydro pumping battery, the nations biggest and growing energy storage method. This could be used to power an east (wet) to west (dry) aqueduct. A percentage of the solar and wind energy stored would be used to power the lift and overcome the friction of the water flow up and down mountains along the route from the southeast (75+ inches per year) to AZ and SoCal (15+ inches per year). That stored energy not consumed by the aqueduct flow would enter the grid along the path of the aqueduct. 

https://news.yahoo.com/batteries-hyped-pumped-hydro-provides-134534458.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

[Reg]

Graph update a little more than halfway into January now. Note the steady climb in low temperatures since the beginning of the month. We haven't had a decently cold night in several weeks now.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Got a bit of a scratchy throat and my nose is running a little bit. COVID?

[Anti Marine Layer]

4 hours ago, AquariusRadar said:

Here is an interesting article hydro battery - about the hydro pumping battery, the nations biggest and growing energy storage method. This could be used to power an east (wet) to west (dry) aqueduct. A percentage of the solar and wind energy stored would be used to power the lift and overcome the friction of the water flow up and down mountains along the route from the southeast (75+ inches per year) to AZ and SoCal (15+ inches per year). That stored energy not consumed by the aqueduct flow would enter the grid along the path of the aqueduct. 

https://news.yahoo.com/batteries-hyped-pumped-hydro-provides-134534458.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Whoopty do!