Holiday Sun!

Dry weather returns for the foreseeable future. Afternoons will get milder each day but the next several mornings will be quite chilly—enough so that a frost advisory will be in place for southern interior valleys through Saturday morning. In the meantime, high pressure slowly builds and dominates the Central Coast which will at least push our afternoons back to normal and above for the holiday weekend. Looks like that warming trend will last for much of next week with lots of sunshine.

AIR QUALITY: Good to Moderate

Today: Sunshine and light winds with temps warming up into the low to mid 60s. Clouds increase late.

Overnight: Coastal clouds to mainly clear and chilly with frost possible with lows in the low to upper 30s to low 40s.

**FROST ADVISORY**
… for interior Monterey and San Benito Counties in effect from 10PM Thursday until 9AM Friday and then again from 10PM Friday until 9AM Saturday for inland Monterey County.

*Temperatures as low as 32 will result in frost formation.

*Cold conditions will be hazardous to sensitive populations such as unhoused individuals. Cold Conditions can lead to hypothermia with prolonged exposure.
 
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.

Be sure to turn off sprinklers ahead of sub-freezing temperatures to avoid creating ice patches on driveways and sidewalks.

Be sure to cover or tend to sensitive plants and vegetation as they may be damaged by frost.

Extended: Dry conditions expected through the weekend and the week ahead with lows slightly below normal and highs rising to above normal. No major weather-related travel impacts around the state through the weekend except for some valley fog.

*Note: Any alerts from the National Weather Service in Monterey will be noted in italics above. Alerts may be edited for brevity or local clarification
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This week's normal temperatures:
--COASTAL CITIES--
LOW: 43ºF
HIGH: 62ºF

--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 38ºF
HIGH: 64ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for December 4^th – 10^th calls for the likelihood of ABOVE normal temperatures and BELOW normal precipitation.

- ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) STATUS: La Niña Watch
- ENSO Forecast: Transition to La Niña into the fall and persist through the winter months.
- Area drought status: Abnormally dry for areas around Monterey Bay northward. Drought-free elsewhere.
- Monterey Bay Sea Surface Temperature as of November 27^th : 54.8ºF (avg of 6 buoys) [November Average: 56.6ºF]