Friends,
Yesterday I noted that our resident psychic weather forecaster was alarmed by The Weather Channel prediction of an overnight low of 20° which seemed far too low. Today it seems that their forecast didn’t go low enough, but I’ll let our gal, The Clam explain what happened herself
Good morning everybody. It’s pretty chilly up here this morning—currently 18° before sunrise at 6:59 AM. The remaining snow had turned to slush yesterday due to afternoon rainfall that was fairly light, but persistent over several hours. That slush is now frozen, along with any runoff streaming across roadways.
I just wanted to let you know that the models I’m looking at did show the arctic flow rushing over Southern California, but I missed the intense winds that brought the temperature down very quickly yesterday afternoon. In fact, this flow pattern is very similar to the atmospheric river event from last week, but the ocean temperatures seem to be too low for another significant period of precipitation. Sorry about missing it by such a large margin, but I’ll try to do much better next year.
Hugs,
The Idyllwild Weather Clam
Hugs?
– bob
P.S. Happy birthday to both Mike Nesmith AND Davy Jones!