Cooling Down...
As advertised, the atmosphere was less hot today with highs in the lower 70s near the coast and close to 80 inland. But by late in the day cooler marine air had penetrated inland too and everyone is getting relief from the abnormally warm air. This new airmass is flowing in off the water thanks to high pressure that is now NE of us. Along with the cooler temperatures we are seeing an influx of moisture at the lower levels...this translates to low clouds and fog and they both have been forming and spreading inland this evening.
Tomorrow, the less potent late September sun will have a hard time burning through the low clouds and it will take several hours to do so...but by afternoon we will get into intervals of sunshine. Highs will stay in the 60s near the coast and reach the low to mid 70s inland.
We continue to watch and wait for showers to work in from the west. A solid line of showers and embedded thunderstorms are located just a couple hundred miles to the west right now but without much eastward movement it will take another 36+ hours for them to arrive here. The problem is an upper level storm system driving this front east is still nearly stationary. It will begin to open up and move with the westerlies on Thursday and then pass overhead on the weekend. It still appears that it will only be able to muster up some afternoon showers on Saturday but an offshore storm that it will spin up will have to be watched closely.
