Another heatwave for California and the West while Midwest, South and East cools down (San Diego: vs., suburbs)

[sav858]

Any hurricane that impacts CA is usually coming from Baja, Hawaii is way too far out. I remember several times the remnants of hurricanes making its way to Central/Northern CA but it's never the soaking that SoCal can get.

[blueskywalker]

Originally Posted by MtnSurfer

Brutal! I thought the SC mountains got coastal breezes and associated cooling? You guys are used to the cooling fog covering those Redwoods. Of course, Fall is more sunny overall than Summers.

Derek

On a hot sunny summer day it's always hotter up in the mountains (despite the redwoods) as it's farther from the coast and with less fog and often none at all.
Cooler yesterday and today. Only reached 99 inside today. What a relief.

[It is 57 below zero]

Originally Posted by nslander

You know, it's not so much the heat as it is the humidity.

Me too. Severe heat is annoying, but in my opinion at least, dry heat is 1000x easier to deal with than humid heat. I hate having sweat pour through my clothes as soon as I walk outside.

[Belmont_Boy]

September is generally vies with August as the hottest month of the year in the LA area (a characteristic of Mediterranean climates in the Northern Hemisphere), so I don't know why the extreme heat we've been experiencing this past week has come as such a shock to so many people. Perhaps it might be a combination of the heat and humidity? I don't know, but to everyone whose complained to me about the heat this past week, I've told them to try living Florida, where conditions are like this just about everyday from March to November.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by Belmont_Boy

September is generally vies with August as the hottest month of the year in the LA area (a characteristic of Mediterranean climates in the Northern Hemisphere), so I don't know why the extreme heat we've been experiencing this past week has come as such a shock to so many people.

I don't know either, but people seem to have some sort of tribal memory that tells them September "ought" to be fall. Even when they're SoCal natives and ought to know that it almost always hits 90+ in September.

[Ultrarunner]

Yesterday there was nearly a 50 degree swing in less than 30 miles.

In Danville California the temp read 108 and my friend on the coast said it was in the 60's with the marine layer.

[MtnSurfer]

Originally Posted by Ultrarunner

Yesterday there was nearly a 50 degree swing in less than 30 miles.

In Danville California the temp read 108 and my friend on the coast said it was in the 60's with the marine layer.

Wow, that's huge, especially in such a short radius! I know Monterey and Gilroy similar type extremes. Though I'm not sure about 50 degrees.

Derek

[It is 57 below zero]

Originally Posted by MtnSurfer

Wow, that's huge, especially in such a short radius! I know Monterey and Gilroy similar type extremes. Though I'm not sure about 50 degrees.

Derek

Most places closer than 75 miles from each other wouldn't usually have more than a 10-20F difference. So I'm guessing the ocean temperature where they were was cool.

San Diego, and a suburb, El Cajon, has a 10F difference regularly.

[MtnSurfer]

Originally Posted by It is 57 below zero

Most places closer than 75 miles from each other wouldn't usually have more than a 10-20F difference. So I'm guessing the ocean temperature where they were was cool.

San Diego, and a suburb, El Cajon, has a 10F difference regularly.

This gets accentuated in the Bay area with fog during Summer months and sometimes other days along the coast. Then, inland it gets downright hot. So the extremes are definitely there, just not always with such a large spread.

San Diego would get like this in June with June gloom along the coast and high temps in places like El Cajon. My wife lived there when younger and I remember going to visit her during those times. We couldn't wait to beat the heat and get to the coast were it was always *much* cooler.

Derek

[Ruth4Truth]

BTW, I read in the paper this past week that El Nino typically means wet weather for SoCal, but dry weather for NorCal. NorCal residents may be disappointed if they're expecting drought relief.