Temperature Ups And Downs

SALINAS, Calif. (KION) - Seasonable temperatures continue for the most part on Tuesday. A cut off area of low pressure will sit to our south during the day but it will slowly move away from us but only to be replaced by overall troughing over the Western U.S. In the short gap, inland temps will warm 5-10ºF Tuesday but we’ll likely remain unchanged on the coast. The marine layer will have some trouble reestablishing its stability, but eventually, more persistent low clouds will return. Inland areas will then cool a bit Wednesday/Thursday as the troughing takes over.  

Air Quality: Good to Moderate      
 
Overnight: Low clouds will be slow to return, but will eventually fill in around the coast and push into the valleys. Passing high clouds. Patchy fog in the hills. Lows in the upper 40s to mid-50s on the coast and low 40s to mid-50s inland.  
  
Tuesday: Remaining partly cloudy on the coast and slightly cooler with highs in the low to upper 60s, but warmer inland under mostly sunny skies with highs in the low 70s to low 90s. Breezy west-southwesterly onshore winds becoming windy up valleys late in the day.  Low clouds thicken on the coast late. 
 
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy on the coast early, becoming partly cloudy with highs mainly in the 60s. Inland areas will clear out by afternoon with highs cooling slightly to the 70s to upper 80s. Breezy west-southwesterly onshore winds becoming windy up valleys late in the day.  

Extended: Temperatures won’t change much through the end of the week with weak troughing over the West Coast. We’ll see our daily cycle of low clouds on the coast as well. High pressure nudges in from the northwest into the weekend which should warm inland temps, but don’t expect too much coastal warming.  
 
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This week's normal temperatures:    
--COASTAL CITIES--   
LOW: 51ºF       
HIGH: 67ºF        
--INLAND CITIES--        
LOW: 48ºF        
HIGH: 78ºF       
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The outlook from the Climate Prediction Center for June 10^th – 16^th calls for the likelihood of near normal temperatures and near normal precipitation.  
- ENSO (El Niño/La Niña) STATUS: Neutral  
- ENSO Forecast: Neutral conditions persist through summer & possibly into next winter.  
-Area drought status: Abnormally dry for portions of southern San Benito and southeastern Monterey Counties. Drought-free for the remainder of the KION coverage area.   
-Monterey Bay Sea Surface Temperature as of June 3^rd : 56.8ºF (avg. of 7 buoys) [Historic June Avg. SST: 56.7ºF]