Seasonable Coast, Inland Heat

High pressure to our west will dominate our weather for the coming week. As it expands and contracts and wobbles around, we’ll see impacts on our temperatures and marine layer depth. Into the work week, the ridge expands and wobbles toward us which will bring warmer air and compress our marine layer. Temperatures will peak on Tuesday before the ridge eases back to the east past mid-week. Recent trends have shown the ridge elongating late in the week with a second maxima closer so us, so I’ve warmed our Friday/Saturday temperatures.  

AIR QUALITY: Good to Moderate

Overnight: Low clouds fill in around the bay eventually and push into the lower elevation valleys. Patchy fog & drizzle possible. Expect lows in the 50s for most areas with 60s up in the hills.

Monday:Clouds clear back to the coast and again for the afternoon. Remaining low clouds will favor the south side of the bay and we’ll also have some occasional high clouds drifting through from the south. Expect coastal highs in the low 60s to upper 70s-warmest on the north side of the bay—and low 80s to around 108ºF inland. Breezy onshore winds becoming windy up valleys late in the day.

Tuesday: Morning low clouds and fog becoming mostly sunny in the afternoon with a few low clouds on the south side of the bay. Warmer, with coastal highs in the mid 60s to low 80s—warmest on the north side of the bay—and mid 80s to around 111ºF inland. Windy up-valleys late in the day.

Extended: Temperatures will cool back down again a bit for Wednesday/Thursday with increased low clouds. Recent trends have shown the ridge elongating late in the week with a second maxima closer so us, so I’ve warmed our Friday/Saturday temperatures. We’ll also see occasional high clouds move in from the south day to day.

*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: 55ºF
HIGH: 69ºF

--INLAND CITIES--
LOW: 53ºF
HIGH: 85ºF
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-The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for August 12^th – 18^th calls for the likelihood of near 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 August 4^th: 58.8ºF
(Historic August AVG: 59.6ºF) -- *average of six buoys