Summer time formally ended greater than a month in the past however Southern Californians can count on summer-like climate early this week, adopted by the return of cooler fall temperatures and even a rainstorm later within the week.
Temperatures on Monday can be within the 80s and 90s throughout a lot of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, approaching document highs in some areas of the valleys, in line with a Nationwide Climate Service space forecast.
Alongside the coast, temperatures can be within the 60s to 70s early within the week — nonetheless round 10 to twenty levels larger than regular for this time of 12 months.
Tuesday and Wednesday can be cooler as a rainstorm approaches, anticipated to reach late Wednesday and peak someday Thursday, truly fizzling out by the tip of the week. The coastal and valley areas will see round 1 to 2 inches of rainfall, and the foothills ought to count on between 2 and 4 inches.
“It’ll positively be a reasonably good storm,” mentioned Wealthy Thompson, a meteorologist for the Nationwide Climate Service in Oxnard.
Whereas there’s some threat for the burn scars throughout Los Angeles due to doable thunderstorms, Thompson mentioned forecasters are ready till later within the week for storm fashions to develop earlier than ringing the alarm. “Not an ideal concern proper now, however it’s positively there,” he mentioned.
There’s some threat of flooding, particularly in low-lying areas and concrete roadways, however nothing particular to fret about in most locations, Thompson mentioned. The rain might even find yourself being a useful follow-up to the precipitation from the previous few weeks to stifle the opportunity of wildfires.
“If the rainfall quantities work out as we’re anticipating, this could be an ideal assist to essentially put a kibosh, so to talk, on the hearth season,” he mentioned.
After the storm passes, the weekend is predicted to be dry and funky, with highs within the 60s and low 70s — a bit under regular for the primary time this 12 months.
