Getting Back To More Seasonal Temps

The weather pattern becomes more tranquil in the coming days. The dry lightning threat has come to an end and the long duration heat event has come to an end! Temps will be getting back to typical July weather next week with more 80s inland and cooler in coastal communities with clouds and sunny skies inland.

AIR QUALITY: Good 

Sunday: Patchy low clouds on the coast, otherwise mostly sunny and hazy with a few mid-level clouds. Coastal highs in the low 60s and 70s with 80s to 90s inland. Light west-southwesterly onshore winds, becoming windy up valleys late in the day.

Monday: Morning clouds, patchy fog then gradual clearing and temps return to more seasonal conditions with coastal highs low to mid 60s and inland 70's to 80's with a few 90s far south.

Extended: Next week we enter a period of stable, unchanging weather through around Thursday with low clouds more present at the coast along with cooler temperatures and seasonable yet mostly sunny conditions inland (fog/low clouds likely in the mornings for most valleys) Some warming then expected into next weekend.

*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: 54ºF
HIGH: 68ºF

--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 52ºF
HIGH: 84ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for July 19^th – 25^th calls for the likelihood of ABOVE normal temperatures and near normal* precipitation.
*Note: little to no precipitation typically falls this time of year

- ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) STATUS: La Niña Watch
- ENSO Forecast: Transition to La Niña by late summer.
- Area drought status: Currently drought-free
- Monterey Bay Sea Surface Temperature* as of July 11^th: 57.7ºF
(Historic June AVG: 58.4ºF) -- *average of three buoys