This is usually the time of year when it is not hard to come up with something interesting in the forecast for the Western states. Usually, but not today. I have been struggling all day trying to come up for a subject for todays blog. I am still in that struggle.
Yes, there are a couple of storms that will move through the Northwest over the next 48 hours, but these are not out of the ordinary storms for this time of year and I talked about that on Tuesday. What I said Tuesday still holds today.
It has cooled down noticeably in Central and Southern California today from the unseasonable warmth of the weekend and earlier this week. Again, it is really not out of the ordinary and this too was talked about on Wednesday.
A weak upper low will head west then south of Southern California tonight and tomorrow, then across northern Mexico on Saturday. Other than bringing some middle and high clouds and helping the cooldown, this is certainly not an interesting storm.
Even the longer range is not all that exciting. A pretty strong cold front moves into Washington and Oregon on Monday with gusty winds and a period of moderate rainfall. This front moves south through California Tuesday and Tuesday night, but is not likely to bring rain any farther south than northern California.
The tropics in the Atlantic Basin is certainly interesting with late-season development that could affect the U.S next week. But of course, this isn't the West.
I guess I will take this rather ho hum weather pattern as I am sure the weather gods will make me pay for this relatively simple weather pattern in the future.
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Same old same old here in Modesto - just cooler summer weather.
Posted by Heidi H Christensen | November 6, 2009 11:35 AM
Well, perhaps some places had nothing out of the ordinary, but here in Edmonds, WA, we had a monster (for us, at least) thunderstorm last night. Seattle data doesn't seem to reflect it, so it seems that it was pretty localized (we're about 25 miles north of Seatac airport, where Seattle weather is recorded). At around 11:30 last night, the wind was howling and the rain was heavier than I can remember seeing in a long time. Like I said, I have no data, but my very rough guesses would be for wind gusts in the 50-60 mph range and about 0.5 inch of rain in about 10 minutes.
Posted by Simon | November 6, 2009 10:37 AM
Bring your buddies back to Sacramento and do a little more singing before winter sets in.
Posted by Barry Watson | November 6, 2009 9:09 AM
Hey a week of cooler comfortable day's works for me, sounds like running weather.
Posted by Jeremy | November 6, 2009 6:47 AM
You sound bored...lol!
Westcoastguru says; Simple answer..YEP
Posted by MoonShot | November 5, 2009 4:36 PM