A warm Wednesday, then cooling
High pressure will continue over the west coast Wednesday, with warm air in place. However, the sea breeze will likely keep most coastal cities from getting too hot.
A weak and mostly dry weather system will slide down the coast through the end of the week. Onshore flow ahead of it will cool our entire area and reintroduce low clouds into the forecast. While the weather system isn’t expect to bring any rain directly, some drizzle will be possible and there is the potential for an isolated shower over the inland hills on Friday.
A deeper weather system will come in Sunday into Monday with a better chance for rain.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny with some low clouds returning to the coast late. Expect coastal highs in the 60s to low 70s, with 70s to low 80s inland.
Wednesday night: Patchy coastal fog. Lows in the 40s on the coast and mid 30s to 40s inland.
Thursday: Partly to mostly cloudy and much cooler with highs in the upper 50s to 60s on the coast and 60s to low 70s inland.
Extended: Skies will remain partly cloudy Friday/Saturday with seasonably cool temperatures. There is a slight chance of a shower over the southern inland hills Friday afternoon. Rain is likely to return Sunday night and last into Monday. Temps will remain a bit cool with some warming expected through mid-week next week.
The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for April 22nd-28th calls for the likelihood of ABOVE normal temperatures and near normal precipitation.
El Niño/La Niña STATUS: Neutral
Forecast into Summer: Neutral
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This week's normal temperatures:
--COASTAL CITIES--
LOW: 46ºF
HIGH: 64ºF
--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 42ºF
HIGH: 72ºF
