After weeks of monsoon burning thunderstorms, wildfires and stuffy heat,”Early Cold Front“Temperatures are expected to drop across California this week.
“We will have a quick cooling and the temperature drops tomorrow,” Kristan Lund, a meteorologist at Oxnard National Weather Service, said on Monday. “This is one of the biggest cooling times we have ever seen, especially since June. … This will keep the temperatures well below normal.”
Lund said Wednesday and Thursday that while temperatures are close to Sunday in parts of Southern California, highs in the same area will be difficult to reach the mid-80s. The estimated highs during the day are 10 to 20 degrees The average is below average at this time of year, and the coastal areas remain in the 1960s or 1970s.
Low-pressure systems in the Trans-Pacific Northwest and California are bringing “significant cooling trends”, weather service forecasters said. The cooling time will be felt statewide and is expected to last most of the week.
In the Bay Area and Northern California, the cold front brings opportunities for light rain and thunderstorms, which has the potential to mitigate certain wildfire risks, depending on the total amount of precipitation. last week, Several wildfires were lit Throughout the region, many people were triggered by lightning.
“Extensive immersion in California, the North Coast and the Northern Mountains may be on the North Coast and [San Francisco] Bay Area/Sacramando,” wrote Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA On social media. “This rain will help substantially reduce the risk of fire [Oregon and northwest California]although some existing fires in heavy wood may continue to burn. ”
Lund said Southern California will not expect no rainfall, but the deep ocean layer may bring some coastal drizzle and may even bring some showers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. However, mitigating the threat of fire and possibly staying below one tenth of an inch is not enough.
“We need at least a few inches of rain to get us out of the high fire season, and the vegetation is now very dry,” she said.
While cooler temperatures may feel like the end of summer, forecasters warn that this may not be the case, especially in the South.
“Another heat wave is not impossible,” Lund said, noting that the most common time for dry Santa Ana winds in autumn is.
So, despite the cooler days, Southern California can expect a slight warming trend from Friday to weekends. And it may continue: in mid-September, temperatures across the state are expected to be above average. Latest remote predictions.
