I heard the early cherry and plum trees are beginning to blossom in Victoria. It was hard to tell in the dark last night, but that appeared to be true along Blanchard street.

Not oriented properly to force a large scale downstream Asian trough, which is what matters in lowering AAM and reducing forward (eastward) progression of the pattern.

My SoCal family is in San Diego and Anaheim Hills. Neither is any danger, but my Aunt in A Hills said it gusting to 70 at her house. Never in my 40 years down there was there anything like this.

Low of 33F and currently 34F with fog.

Maybe we will have an El Niño with little influence over weather like this pathetic La Niña