I didn’t like the satellite picture over the Pacific late Saturday afternoon. Instead of a nice ridge of high pressure shunting clouds to our north, there is a massive area of clouds gathering.
It’s nothing really organized right now but setting up for a deep trough of low pressure that will remain off our coast all week, allowing weather systems to rotate around and swing inland for showers off and on. The sunny skies and warm temperatures have moved down to California.
Of course we should have some sunbreaks, but the rain will threaten for a while. The short term climate forecast suggests a warm and dry East Coast while we slide into a cooler, wetter regime. Well, at least our little dry spell was nice while it lasted!
There were still reports of scattered frost in the outlying areas early Saturday morning, with lows in the 30s. As we swing into the new week, we will cool down into the low 60’s for highs — way below average. There could be a day or two that we struggle to make even the 60 degree mark. We’re reverting to the first few days of May, it seems.
