After weeks of monsoon burning thunderstorms, wildfires and sultry high temperatures, the “early cold front” is expected to land in California this week.
“We will have a quick cooling and the temperature drops tomorrow,” Kristan Lund, a meteorologist at Oxnard National Weather Service, said on Monday. “This is one of the biggest cooling times we have ever seen, especially since June. … This will keep the temperatures well below normal.”
Lund said Wednesday and Thursday that while temperatures are close to Sunday in parts of Southern California, highs in the same area will be difficult to reach the mid-80s. Daytime highs are expected to be 10 to 20 degrees below average at this time of year, with coastal areas still remaining in the 1960s or 1970s.
Low-pressure systems in the Trans-Pacific Northwest and California are bringing “significant cooling trends”, weather service forecasters said. The cooling time will be felt statewide and is expected to last most of the week.
In the Bay Area and Northern California, the cold front brings opportunities for light rain and thunderstorms, which has the potential to mitigate certain wildfire risks, depending on the total amount of precipitation. Last week, several wildfires were lit throughout the area, many triggered by lightning.
“Extensive immersion in California, the North Coast and the Northern Mountains may be on the North Coast and [San Francisco] “Bay Area/Sacramando Region,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain wrote on social media. [Oregon and northwest California]although some existing fires in heavy wood may continue to burn. ”
Lund said Southern California will not expect no rainfall, but the deep ocean layer may bring some coastal drizzle and may even bring some showers on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings. However, mitigating the threat of fire and possibly staying below one tenth of an inch is not enough.
“We need at least a few inches of rain to get us out of the high fire season, and the vegetation is now very dry,” she said.
While cooler temperatures may feel like the end of summer, forecasters warn that this may not be the case, especially in the South.
“Another heat wave is not impossible,” Lund said, noting that the most common time for dry Santa Ana winds in autumn is.
So, despite the cooler days, Southern California can expect a slight warming trend from Friday to weekends. And it may continue: temperatures across the state will be above average based on the latest long-term forecast.
