Foggy Start

Temperatures cool down into the weekend as the big monsoonal high moves farther away from our area. Troughing on the West Coast will reinforce the cooling trend bringing a cooler air mass aloft and a deeper marine layer. As the marine layer deepens Friday into Saturday, we may see some drizzle.

AIR QUALITY: Good to Moderate

Friday: Partly to mostly cloudy on the coast with highs in the 60s to low 70s and mostly sunny inland with highs ranging from the 70s to around 102ºF. Windy up valleys late in the day. Low clouds thicken and push inland late.

Overnight: Cloudy on the coast and mostly cloudy for inland valleys. Patchy drizzle around the bay. Fog in the hills. Lows in the 50s for the coast and inland valleys with a few 40s in clear, higher valleys.

Saturday: Partly to mostly cloudy on the coast with highs in the 60s and mostly sunny inland with highs ranging from the 70s to 90s. Windy up valleys late in the day.

Extended: Temperatures remain cooler with coastal clouds this weekend. Then, high pressure slowly rebuilds next week, sending temps back upward. We’ll likely see another gulp of monsoon moisture bringing at least so mid to high level clouds staring Tuesday.

 *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: 55ºF
HIGH: 68ºF

--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 53ºF
HIGH: 85ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for August 2^nd – 8^th calls for the likelihood of ABOVE normal temperatures and ABOVE 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 26^th: 59.1ºF
(Historic June AVG: 58.4ºF) -- *average of three buoys