Radar — KVTX
Surface Analysis — Western U.S. (South)
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15/1110 PM.
Warm but below normal temperatures will continue through thursday, with expanding coastal morning low clouds. Patchy morning drizzle will be possible during the night into morning hours through thursday. Temperatures are likely to increase towards the end of the week.
16/1802Z.
At 1714Z at klax, the marine layer was 4800 feet deep. The top of the inversion was at 6000 feet with a temperature of 16 c.
High confidence in tafs for kpmd and kwjf.
Moderate confidence in remaining tafs. Timing of flight cat changes could be off by +/- 3 hours. CST and vly airfields of l.a. County will likely not scatter out this afternoon with VFR cigs.
Klax...moderate confidence in taf. There is a 70% chance for no afternoon clearing. There is a 30 percent chc of an 8 KT east wind component thru 19Z.
Kbur...moderate confidence in taf. There is a 70% chance for no afternoon clearing.
16/833 AM.
High confidence in relatively light winds across all coastal waters through thursday morning, except for winds up to 20 knots around point conception through tonight. Sca level NW winds will return to outer waters south and west of point sal by thursday evening. These winds will become fairly widespread across the outer waters reaching into the nearshore waters along the central coast and at least the western portion of the santa barbara channel friday into the weekend. Peak winds will be much weaker than this past weekend likely topping out 20-25 KT & locally 25-30 KT over climatological favored waters such as near point conception.