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Yeah, not much so far. The storm is rotating counter-clockwise, meaning the tropical air is going to hit the mountains to the east of the coast first. Also th
by 01100011 3y ago
Yeah, not much so far. The storm is rotating counter-clockwise, meaning the tropical air is going to hit the mountains to the east of the coast first. Also the storm seems to be stuck around the middle of Baja California right now. Strangely enough this is where the water temp begins to cool as you move northward(https://coastalwatertemperatureguide-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/ https://coastalwatertemperatureguide-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/). I was worried the storm would gain some energy from the Gulf of California since that's quite warm(85F now) but that doesn't seem to be happening.
The mountains are what normally prevent the coast from seeing any of the monsoonal storms typical of CA/AZ deserts in mid-summer. It's common for moisture coming from Mexico to produce large thunderstorms east of the coastal mountain ranges this time of year.
I'm not saying this storm won't amount to anything for the coast. We'll probably get some rain and some wind. I'm not stockpiling anything and my only prep has been to put a bit of gas in the car and charge all of my batteries. We're most likely going to roll our eyes at the people panic-buying TP and water this Monday.
Edit: It's 12:32 AM in San Diego. According to several online radar maps including weather.com, we've been in the middle of a rainstorm for almost an hour. The ground is still dry and it's a calm 73F outside. Very weird. I can understand radar picking up light rain which evaporates before hitting the ground, but the map is indicating rain that is much heavier than that. Weird.
- 01100011 3y ago1:44AM: still solidly inside the main band of rain on the radar. The only noticable precipitation happened about 45 minutes ago and it was barely sprinkling for 2-3 minutes. Pavement is still dry. Calm with hardly any wind.
- lqr 3y agoGood luck. Still calm here in northeast LA too.
- samstave 3y agoYeah - the other day they said 65% chance of thunderstorms the other day in the sacramento area... and it was blue skies the whole time. But hot. We need to go back to the nerd meteorologists nerds with elbow patches on tweed jackets as opposed to cocktail dresses on tight fitting big boobs.
- bombcar 3y agoI don’t know if they’ve changed how they forecast, or things are more unpredictable, or not updated as often as they seem, but “chance of rain today” forecasts have been wildly inaccurate for me - often going from 0% all day to “rain starts in 20 minutes”.
- gedy 3y agoA little wind and light rain at the moment in northern San Diego county
- scruple 3y agoOdd, we've had steady rain in south Orange county since around 5am. It was downpouring for about 30 minutes between 6 and 7am. It's slowed a bit now but it's still been raining nonstop.
- gedy 3y agoYeah unexpected for me, seems like there is a big hook spiraling in from the east, I guess it's hitting first farther north of us.
- 01100011 3y agoUpdate: It rained. Nothing special. Based on the radar map there's some more rain coming but nothing severe. So much for being the storm of the century.