Fantastic Weekend Weather!

More sunshine and mild temps for the weekend. While the region will be sunny and warm overall through the Saint Patrick’s Day weekend, we could see a few low clouds along the coast with slightly cooler daytime high temperatures Saturday and Sunday. Staying dry and even warmer for the start of next week as we welcome the official start to Spring with highs possibly in the 70s for several spots. Looks to stay dry with sun all next week with rain chances by next weekend.

AIR QUALITY: Good

Overnight: Mostly clear with lows mainly in the 40s. Light SSE winds.

Saturday: Staying quiet and pleasant with sunshine and slightly cooler with highs mainly in the mid to upper 60s. Clouds move in around the coast Saturday night. S winds becoming breezy in the valleys.

Sunday: Morning clouds than becoming mostly sunny coastal with highs in the low to mid 60s. Light winds. Sunny and mild inland with highs in the mid to upper 60s to low 70s.

Extended: Temperatures jump up above normal next week with a stretch of dry weather. The long term forecast is still looking pretty dry. Monday looks to be the warmest with some interior spots in the mid 70s. Tuesday is the first day of spring.

*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 (in parenthesis).
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This week's normal temperatures:
--COASTAL CITIES--
LOW: 45ºF
HIGH: 63ºF

--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 41ºF
HIGH: 67ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for March 23^th – 29^th calls for the likelihood of below normal temperatures and ABOVE normal precipitation.

- ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) STATUS: El Niño Advisory, La Niña Watch
- ENSO Forecast: Transition from El Niño to neutral by Spring and then to La Niña by summer.
-Area drought status: Currently drought-free