Nasty Santa Ana - SoCal

[MattyB]

It's nasty out there right now. In Alpine at 2:45pm it's 93F with only 6% RH! I've never seen it at 6%, that's ridiculous. There are several large fires burning throughout the state and hundreds of small local canyon flare ups. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter and drier.

[sonoranfans]

if it was 110F and 6% RH Id say it turned to arizona.... Very dry, have to make sure my container garden gets water tonight...

[DoomsDave]

Hotter than Hades in La Habra, don't know about the wind, yet.

There's a high wind ad-vise all over CA . . .

[trioderob]

Matty-

I watered big time this morning.

" EAST OF THE TROUGH THE AIR IS VERY DRY WITH NEGATIVE
DEWPOINTS AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY 5 PERCENT OR LESS."

WHAT THE HECK IS A NEGATIVE DEWPOINT ????

[Stevetoad]

Very hot and dry. At 6pm it's still 93.7 and 2% not much of a breeze at all today. 4mph is the max.

[George Sparkman]

This morning at 5:30 there were reports of -24f dewpoint just 15 miles east of my place.

[Trópico]

That's insane! How can it be hot and at the same time so dry? Isn't hot air better at holding humidity? So that's where all of our monsoon like rain and high humidity is coming from, we are apparently sucking up the entire nation's water supply.

[pogobob]

Why do you pilgrims constantly forget that Southern California is a desert?

[MattyB]

Because your grass looks so nice Bob!

[MattyB]

Interesting comments by Meteorologist Matt Baylow:

Alpine had a relative humidity of 1% yesterday afternoon - just 1%! That must be the lowest recorded relative humidity ever (it's not possible to be 0%). Ramona warmed up almost 30F degrees in just one hour, once the offshore flow came in and dried things out - going from 46F to 74F in one hour. Remarkable.

[paulgila]

better stay out of alpine from now on

[sarasota alex]

I was in SD yesterday and the building where I had a meeting was briefly evacuated in the afternoon. There were a bunch of people staying outside in full sun for about 20 minutes and the unusual heat was the only thing everyone has talk about.

[yachtingone]

Thursday morning on my way to LAX to pic up Troy Donovan I never seen so much trash being blown around on the freeway! The Fire up north was burning very strong as we went by! Today on the way home from Paleen Sulivans place no wind and the fire was almost completely extinguished.

[yachtingone]

I came home from the PRA to find wind damage in my garden

The umbrella has been in that same spot for 3 years with no problem at all! The cactus behind the umbrella was vertical before the wind event. It damaged leaves on my Brahea edulis and armata. That doesn't happen here! Lot's of other palms have damage too, but that's expected. The umbrella didn't hurt any plants.

Randy

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

It's nasty out there right now. In Alpine at 2:45pm it's 93F with only 6% RH! I've never seen it at 6%, that's ridiculous. There are several large fires burning throughout the state and hundreds of small local canyon flare ups. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter and drier.

We hit 96F on Friday here in Central California in the redwood rainforest, this is no desert either, rather insanely hot for early May, I've never seen this before! We've had enough of a Southern surge to keep us cool and moist but Friday was another story.

This past Winter we had a week of 80F temps in January followed by two weeks in February and a week in March. Some of my apples are failing to leaf out this year due to the lack of chill. I wonder if global warming is going to take away our redwoods? There are fires all over far Northern California and even Brookings Oregon hit the 80's and 90's right on the beach. There was a small fire across the valley this Morning, but they got it in time. And it's only May. It's going to be a real bad fire season thanks to almost no rain in 2013.

[trioderob]

its raining

[displaced_floridian]

I was looking at the high temps in Socal during the recent Santa Ana event and saw this record from Oceanside. Do you think it's a mistake?

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I was looking at the high temps in Socal during the recent Santa Ana event and saw this record from Oceanside. Do you think it's a mistake?

Those readings are more than bogus. Here is the Wunderground map for Oceanside in the afternoon for Oceanside and vicinity. The heat was mostly inland and came down a few coastal canyons as well, but Oceanside wasn't one of the places that got hot. I looked at May 1 and May 2, couldn't find any time of the day when it was in the 90's or 40F low for that matter.

See http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/ you can browse the temps yourself, just move the map to the area of interest and change the time by clicking on "adjust time" at the bottom. You can enter any date and time, it's a real cool way to see the differences. My garden did hit 96F and I am 3 miles from the beach as the crow flies. See second map.

[trioderob]

now we may get snow

[MattyB]

Nfg, what station is that? Its probably the airport which is inland and low. I believe it.

[MattyB]

Nfg is camp pendleton airport. Its inland, in a valley stuffed between the mountains. You don't know axel, so don't even say.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Nfg is camp pendleton airport. Its inland, in a valley stuffed between the mountains. You don't know axel, so don't even say.

Who doesn't know me? Eh?

[Hammer]

I can vouch for the fact that it got to 92 for two days in Laguna Hills. I'm 6 miles from the coast with a majority coastal influence.

[MattyB]

Nfg is camp pendleton airport. Its inland, in a valley stuffed between the mountains. You don't know axel, so don't even say.

Who doesn't know me? Eh?

[Stevetoad]

It's nasty out there right now. In Alpine at 2:45pm it's 93F with only 6% RH! I've never seen it at 6%, that's ridiculous. There are several large fires burning throughout the state and hundreds of small local canyon flare ups. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter and drier.

We hit 96F on Friday here in Central California in the redwood rainforest, this is no desert either, rather insanely hot for early May, I've never seen this before! We've had enough of a Southern surge to keep us cool and moist but Friday was another story.

This past Winter we had a week of 80F temps in January followed by two weeks in February and a week in March. Some of my apples are failing to leaf out this year due to the lack of chill. I wonder if global warming is going to take away our redwoods? There are fires all over far Northern California and even Brookings Oregon hit the 80's and 90's right on the beach. There was a small fire across the valley this Morning, but they got it in time. And it's only May. It's going to be a real bad fire season thanks to almost no rain in 2013.

This type of weather isn't all that unusual. Global warming? Nah. Redwoods are on there last leg in my opinion. Look at the range they once had 5 million years ago. They are naturally on there way out. They used to be in Europe and Asia up until 5 million years ago. Natural selection will due them in. They will become extinct and washingtonia will replace them.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

It's nasty out there right now. In Alpine at 2:45pm it's 93F with only 6% RH! I've never seen it at 6%, that's ridiculous. There are several large fires burning throughout the state and hundreds of small local canyon flare ups. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter and drier.

We hit 96F on Friday here in Central California in the redwood rainforest, this is no desert either, rather insanely hot for early May, I've never seen this before! We've had enough of a Southern surge to keep us cool and moist but Friday was another story.

This past Winter we had a week of 80F temps in January followed by two weeks in February and a week in March. Some of my apples are failing to leaf out this year due to the lack of chill. I wonder if global warming is going to take away our redwoods? There are fires all over far Northern California and even Brookings Oregon hit the 80's and 90's right on the beach. There was a small fire across the valley this Morning, but they got it in time. And it's only May. It's going to be a real bad fire season thanks to almost no rain in 2013.

This type of weather isn't all that unusual. Global warming? Nah. Redwoods are on there last leg in my opinion. Look at the range they once had 5 million years ago. They are naturally on there way out. They used to be in Europe and Asia up until 5 million years ago. Natural selection will due them in. They will become extinct and washingtonia will replace them.

Nope...

[DoomsDave]

Frozen washies, Alex?

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Frozen washies, Alex?

It's a new rare bronze colored variety of Washingtonia found in Eastern Europe, the bronze seems to be more pronounced in areas where temps drop below 20F. The green variety isn't likely to replace redwoods anytime soon, but look for one of the new bronzed varieties near you, I hear this one will make it in Alaska too, but rumors has it that it's very, very slow growing.

Why is everyone calling me Alex?