Another heatwave for California and the West while Midwest, South and East cools down (San Diego: appointed, living)

[owl6969]

yeah its so ******* hot 10-20 miles inland

& beyond

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Really when was the last one?

The last one was 1997-'98.

[nslander]

How about this heat?

[nslander]

Hot enough for ya?

[nslander]

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

[Fleet]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

I'm guessing warm ocean water temps are the cause of the humidity? If so, it might be worth the putting up with

The cause of the humidity is a moist air mass moving in from the south. Moisture from what was a hurricane last week.

[sdurbanite]

Originally Posted by Fleet

The cause of the humidity is a moist air mass moving in from the south. Moisture from what was a hurricane last week.

Yup....and the remnants of Linda are still churning to the south of us. And speaking of moisture, our dew point is at 70 degrees once again

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Yesterday I indicated I thought the cut off low was caught up in the NWerly flow, but I was mistaken. That was just a piece of moisture from the cut off. In reality the cut off low is still there and strengthening. It may pull what's left of the TC's moisture into the state today through Sunday. Possibility of convection from the Bay Area south.

Meanwhile, sometime next week, the Polar Jet will come even further south. Cold fronts will brush the Bay Area possibly even tipping the bucket in the North Bay. That would be nice. I hope the (North Pacific / Gulf of Alaska) storm door opens early and stays open through March. I know we'll have to cope with flooding if that happens but that's the only thing capable of breaking the drought in earnest.

[MtnSurfer]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Yesterday I indicated I thought the cut off low was caught up in the NWerly flow, but I was mistaken. That was just a piece of moisture from the cut off. In reality the cut off low is still there and strengthening. It may pull what's left of the TC's moisture into the state today through Sunday. Possibility of convection from the Bay Area south.

Meanwhile, sometime next week, the Polar Jet will come even further south. Cold fronts will brush the Bay Area possibly even tipping the bucket in the North Bay. That would be nice. I hope the (North Pacific / Gulf of Alaska) storm door opens early and stays open through March. I know we'll have to cope with flooding if that happens but that's the only thing capable of breaking the drought in earnest.

Question for you, Hillbilly, since its seems you are either a weather buff or possibly work with it. Do you think any of those storms/hurricanes out in the Pacific hammering Hawaii with rain will make it our way? Or, as you seem to indicate, our best chance for rain as a state will come from the North? I know SD gets more tropical rain on occasion. But that doesn't do much for our state's overall water shortage.

Derek

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by MtnSurfer

Question for you, Hillbilly, since its seems you are either a weather buff or possibly work with it. Do you think any of those storms/hurricanes out in the Pacific hammering Hawaii with rain will make it our way? Or, as you seem to indicate, our best chance for rain as a state will come from the North? I know SD gets more tropical rain on occasion. But that doesn't do much for our state's overall water shortage.

Derek

A tropical cyclone that hits Hawaii will generally continue to travel west bound, perhaps recurving out past the date line. Many of these are reclassified as typhoons (anything west of the date line still a named storm is reclassed as a typhoon if at or above hurricane strength). There have been rare cases where one recurved earlier, went extratropical, then got absorbed by a cold front. That would tend to impact the Pac NW because by the time of year cold fronts get down this way reliably, hurricane season is over.