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O.C. coast bakes as sea breeze pulls another vanishing act
September 2nd, 2009, 12:07 pm · 14 Comments · posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
This was supposed to be the day the heat wave greatly eased its grip. Well, it hasn’t. At least not along the coast of Orange County, where the lack of a strong sea breeze is allowing temperatures to spike into the 80s. The average daytime high temperature on the coast this time of year is in the low 70s. The sea breeze kicked up briefly on Tuesday, but then disappeared. There’s been little onshore wind for about a week. Today’s warm conditions are also being fed by the ocean, which is really warm (73-74 degrees). So any breeze that does come ashore is moist and warm, raising the humidity level. (Read more about the warm water.)
In an unrelated matter, the National Weather Service says that some thin smoke from the Angeles National Forest wildfires drifted into parts of Orange County overnight. Here is the South Coast air quality map.
Here are the coastal highs through 2:30 p.m. today:
- Newport Beach: 91
- Huntington Beach: 90
- Bolsa Chica: 84
- San Clemente: 84 (humidity 72%)
- Sunset Beach: 81
- Dana Point: 81
- Seal Beach: 80 (humidity 78%)
And the inland highs …
- Dove Canyon: 99
- Tonner Canyon: 99
- Foothill Ranch: 98
- Fremont Canyon: 98
- Fullerton: 95
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Working in Costa Mesa and discovered ashes on my car, as I left for lunch. Should the AQ index be changing shortly?
Hi Rrene128: South Coast AQMD says the air quality is still good in OC. However, I’d keep an eye on it. I just posted the AQMD website. Here it is: http://www2.aqmd.gov/webappl/gisaqi2/VEMap3D.aspx
Thanks Science Dude. One of my coworkers had ashes on his car yesterday morning (in Lake Forest), then I saw a slight dusting on the cars in the parking lot this afternoon. I guessed it was moving south.
I am surprised to see that it has actualy improved in Pasadena since yesterday.
A slight dusting of ash? OMG - Head into the hermetically sealed Bubble immediately!!
Has anyone ever gone to a campfire these days? (Soon to be outlawed, of course.)
Any of you who were not living here prior to about 1975 have no idea what “bad air quality” is.
Too bad we won’t be getting any moisture from Jimena.
Where is the surf? Thats what played a vanishing act. …but a hurricane swell may be on the way!
http://www.beyondthemargin.net/search/label/Surfing
The last advisory I saw from Surfline says we’re not going to get a big bump from Jimena.
for the 2nd day in a row, the meteorologists can’t even predict the weather 10-12 hours in advance. pretty silly.
They predicted it would be hot.
Guess what?
It’s hot.
I’d say they did OK.
We don’t even have much “weather” this time of year. We have climate. Monsoonal moisture is about all there is in terms of meteorological excitement. Which is OK. That’s why many of us live here.
“This was supposed to be the day the heat wave greatly eased its grip. Well, it hasn’t.”
don’t just take my word for it.
They said it would drop a few degrees. Instead it went up a couple. No biggie.
That’s all. No one predicted an Arctic plunge.
In addition to the heat there is a nice putrid smell coming off of the ocean. Has that unmistakeable Red Tide/ dead animal smell.mmm mmm good.
Yep, hardly any breeze today in HB, yesterday was great, but today not much of anything !!!!
For all those who carp about “dirty air” From AQMD:
“In 1955, when modern ozone monitoring began, Southland residents suffered the highest ozone level ever recorded — 0.68 parts per million in downtown Los Angeles — nearly three times the highest level in 1996.”
http://www.aqmd.gov/news1/Archives/History/marchcov.html