From the California Weather Blog:
“In many ways, the weather over the past few weeks has been pretty typical of early summer in California. It’s been hot in the inland valleys, and not so hot near the coast, with a sharp gradient in between. Conditions have been largely dry, though an increasingly moist monsoonal flow has finally brought respectable thunderstorms to some mountain and high desert regions lately. We’ve seen a modest marine layer along the coast, and periodic heat waves inland that have brought sweltering temperatures to Central Valley and southeastern desert communities. None of these events is particularly noteworthy for late June and early July.
Despite this semblance of pseudo-normality, though, there are a number of rather stark reminders that conditions are far from what would normally be expected this time of year. … “
Read more from the California Weather Blog here: Hot, dry summer continues in California; severe fire season looms; El Niño update
