2022-2023 California and Southwest Weather Thread

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sadly it has stopped. 

[Reg]

Apparently rained at my location between 3 and 4 AM this morning, rain gauge shows 0.04". Haven't verified it yet.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Heavier shower moved in now. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

Still pouring in Laguna Niguel.

[Anti Marine Layer]

No rain in Lake Forest but something may still be headed our way.

[Reg]

Manual rain gauge has .04" in it, also some Wunderground stations nearby also recorded rain this morning. A station just a mile north of me recorded 0.06".

[Reg]

Orange County getting hit quite a lot this morning. Santiago Peak looking west.

[Reg]

97F despite cloud cover.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Coto de Caza got 0.24".

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sea breeze now returning. 

[Reg]

99F now. Doppler radar doesn't look impressive for us in the inland valleys at the moment. Deserts are lit up though.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Thunder98 chance of stopping by is low today.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Not a drop up here, and we’re running out of time.

But it was a nice warm day at the coast, getting close to 80 even on west facing beaches.

[Reg]

101F here, eleven degrees warmer than forecast.

[Thunder98]

41 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Thunder98 chance of stopping by is low today.

Poop

[Reg]

Temperature has dropped quite a bit as fully cloudy skies return.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Storm activity has died down. Debris clouds are obscuring any activity in the mountains and deserts.

[Thunder98]

Warm and humid today

[Reg]

[Reg]

Daily temperature/precipitation graph update for my weather station.

[Anti Marine Layer]

A new month is upon us. Hope to see more monsoon activity. 

[Anti Marine Layer]

I left my heart in San Francisco (because I lost in in the fog)

[Pn1ct0g3n]

August has started with a strong onshore push here, but the monsoon pulse has lasted into a third day so it’s hard to know how it’ll shake out.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

In places where the low clouds have cleared you can see the stage set for more potential action, but the Pacific is fighting back.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Satellite is frozen in time again!

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Highs at the beaches are down a bit with the stronger onshore flow. Still plenty of middle and high clouds around but nothing’s firing off.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Major SCE work today. Electricity is a nice thing to have. Imagine the days when people lived without it.

 

[Thunder98]

Warm and humid again

[Reg]

Low only 72F last night, warmest low since August 11th 2021 at my station (also 72F).

[Anti Marine Layer]

Another reason marine layer increases fire danger is because it makes the air too stable to have summer thunderstorms.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

15 minutes ago, Mr Marine Layer said:

Another reason marine layer increases fire danger is because it makes the air too stable to have summer thunderstorms.

So when they do eventually happen and lightning ignites something, there’s a lot more fuel to go up in a massive inferno. More frequent strikes leading to smaller fires would reduce the risk of a huge, catastrophic blaze.

[Reg]

Sheets of rain falling near Toro Peak this evening.

Rays of light from Palomar Mountain.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Power outage begins at the house next door that causes no-sky all year round from my window. Builders never considered that a 28-foot tall house about 12 feet away would block lots of pretty sky views.

Anyway, we had an outage a few years ago and they had power next door, so now it's their turn. At the end of the block, they're digging a huge hole in the sidewalk.

So the generators will keep humming and humming.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Sea surface temperatures are warming up with all of this monsoon activity.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Already a cool breeze blowing. There’s activity to our west that looks to be passing over parts of the Central Coast.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

You can see the difference the warmed up ocean makes. Even with the onshore flow whipping away, the low clouds are scattered rather than a continuous wall, and it’s still in the mid 70s.

Similar conditions a month ago and we’d be socked in with highs struggling to break 70.

[Anti Marine Layer]

Hot again today but a little more breezy.

[Pn1ct0g3n]

Much, much breezier near the coast today.

[Thunder98]

Lights again today

[Anti Marine Layer]

Onshore flow has picked up.