We are experiencing summer weather at its finest. We will warm a few degrees Friday through Monday, around the 90-degree mark, and a few degrees above that is possible on any of those days. Then our beloved air conditioning off the ocean arrives and places us back in the 80- to 85-degree range Tuesday through Thursday. We once again shift gears and inch back in the 85- to 90-degree range Friday through Sunday of next week.
This has been the pattern for this summer, stable highs in the low to mid-80s and then we inch up toward 90 degrees and then tumble back in the comfortable range again.
Of course, I’m still watching that huge mass of hot weather to our southeast. It will nudge closer to us over the weekend and that’s why I can see us with two or three days of 90 degrees or better. It won’t last long, however, and then the southwest flow takes over and we welcome the marine air.
Forecast charts do want to finally bring that heat dome over us around Aug. 12 or 13, which if occurs would place us in the hottest weather of the season. Our dozen or so 90-degree days this year have been in the low 90s, except one day at 96 degrees, but nothing excessive or near 100 degrees. That heat dome would push our atmosphere near or at the century mark. Again, we have the weather eye standing by to keep watch over that possibility.
