Good morning everyone.
It is Tuesday and we are waking
up to dry skies outside,
but still some wet roads on the
heels of plenty of rainfall that
made its way through San Diego
County throughout our Sunday night,
all day Monday and then into the very,
very early portion of Tuesday. By now,
as we head through the rest of your Tuesday,
we're back to dry skies.
It's looking very nice outside.
This is a live look outside from
earlier this morning where we woke
up to those clear conditions.
We still have some.
Ice on some of the camera lenses out
there denoting how cool it is and of
course that fresh snow that has fallen
over just the last couple of days.
How much snow did we see?
Palomar Mountain,
almost 6 inches 5.5 mountain.
Laguna came in with just an inch.
That was yesterday's number.
Today we could get newer numbers
that start to inch that a bit higher.
Even areas like Julian picked up on
a bit of snow, at least a dusting,
but they also came in with
about an inch of rain,
so things were pretty generous
out there along the coastline.
1/4 of an inch to half an inch and
then as you head farther inland,
3/4 of an inch for Escondido,
over half an inch for
Valley Center for Vista.
So these are pretty good numbers when
you look at just the last two days.
And when you add that on top
of what we saw over the course
of the entire month of January,
now that we're wrapping it up,
it's the 31st, the last day of the month,
we have more than five inches that
have accumulated in San Diego and
that's at San Diego International,
one of the spots that typically picks up
on lighter accumulations compared to say,
your inland valleys.
So average for San Diego.
National is only 1.98 inches.
That means we're coming in more than
double what we would normally see
for average for the month of January.
We hope that momentum carries over
through the next several months
as we could always use it.
It helps contribute to our water year.
That has been generous to us thus far.
Forecast highs,
we're going to be in the low 60s this
afternoon, so yesterday was mainly 50s.
We're going to be a few degrees off
of average for our afternoon high.
Overnight lows have been cold,
so we are dropping down to the 40s overnight.
That'll be the case for the next
couple of mornings.
Moving forward,
but nothing near record territory,
that was set back in 1880.
Our afternoon high record for today
was set back in 2003 and that was 83 degrees.
We're also pretty far off from that.
And then that sunset at 5:20 today here,
your offshore winds,
these offshore winds have helped to
guide those clouds away from the coast
and inland and push them out to sea.
So instead we are waking up
to pretty clear conditions,
still quite a bit of a breeze along your
mountaintops and toward your inland valleys.
Keep that in mind that you're going
to feel that breeze out there.
20 and 30 mile per hour gusts.
Nothing that we've seen this
morning qualifies for a highwind
warning or wind advisory,
but it's still worth noting that
it is a a gusty day at times.
The current disturbance that brought us this
wet weather is now moving off to the east.
You see that as this through of low pressure,
Ridge of high pressure and a weak one at
that will build overhead between now and
your upcoming weekend about Saturday.
That'll keep us dry and keep us on a
warming trend at least now through Saturday,
very incremental, slow and steady,
eventually bringing us to about average.
By the time we get to Saturday,
and then on the heels of it,
just following that Ridge of high pressure,
we'll have a couple disturbances
that try to swing in this one that
arrives late Saturday into Sunday
is going to likely promote a bit of
cloud cover for Sunday into Monday.
It will also encourage a
gradual temperature cool down,
which means that Saturday will
likely be the warmest day as we're
under that Ridge of high pressure.
And then by Sunday we'll start to
see those temperatures cool down.
That will bring us back down
to about this territory, so.
Between now and your upcoming weekend,
we warm.
After the weekend we cool down back
to about the Sun couple upper 50s
that remain in the forecast today.
But we are warming compared to yesterday.
Yesterday we were about 10-15
degrees cooler than average.
Today we're only about 5
degrees cooler than average.
59 for Del Mar,
62 for Carlsbad is that forecast
high 62 for San Diego.
Julian's only going to warm to 48
degrees is going to be a little
bit of time before we see that
snow melt from the mountain tops.
We get out there sooner than later
if you're inclined to go and.
The way the mountaintops Mountain
Laguna has got some fresh snow.
Palomar Mountain,
you've got plenty of locations
to go visit that have a various
degree of of snow out there,
some light accumulations,
some a bit heavier with several inches.
Want to point out on the 8 day
forecast that trend that I mentioned.
So again,
between now and your weekend we'll
keep warming very incrementally.
You'll notice that climb a little
bit more for your inland valleys
and for your mountains and deserts.
The coastline doesn't really
climb all that much,
maybe by a degree or two and.
Sunshine prevails Thursday.
Friday onshore flow will resume
that will allow for a bit more
cloud cover along your coast and
through our inland valleys.
Mountains and deserts climb by
more than 15 degrees between
today and the upcoming weekend,
42 to 58 degrees.
By the time we get to
Saturday for your deserts,
we're going to warm from
62 all the way to 75.
So we've got a nice warming trend on hand.
Sunshine for the weekend and then
into Monday, Tuesday of next week.
Those temperatures do start to
gradually drop, but as you can see,
we are headed toward a pretty dry
start to the month. Of February.
So it's gonna be pretty comfortable out
there to start off the month notices.
Overnight lows are still
in the chillier zone.
Well, you have to keep in mind is that we
are hoping to keep up with that rainfall
that we saw for the month of January,
again, more than double what
we normally would have seen.
And that means that we hope to keep
at least gradual rainfall coming.
We want our water year to remain a
surplus to help to mediate or mitigate,
I should say, those drought
conditions that we have out there.
So we'll keep you up to date on
what those numbers look like.
But again, we are well deserved.
This stretch of drier weather on the web,
you can find more on the forecast.
It's over on our website,
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so we appreciate you being with
us here on your Tuesday morning.
Keep the jacket on hand as it's
cold out there and have a great day.