Record height temperatures in Socal awaited before storms return to the weekend

The unusually warm temperatures are expected to continue in large parts of South California at least on Thursday. However, this should set up additional daily high records. Forecastics, however, say that this phase of heat does not indicate an early start in spring.

It is expected that several cold, wet storms are dramatically turning the forecast at the weekend and pulling the Southland back into the winter throws. According to the latest prospects of the National Climate Prediction Center, below -average temperatures will probably be stopped until mid -March.

“We will really come here in the next few days here in winter, two or three rather cold low -pressure systems,” said Mike Wfford, a meteorologist of the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “It will be a pretty dramatic change.”

But this shift is only expected on Friday, and until then Wfford said that this warm stretch will remain in place, whereby the heights of 15 to 20 degrees over normal for this time of year – and in some places are even higher.

The large, warm air mass over a large part of California has brought the hottest temperatures this year in many areas, from Bay Area to San Diego, and several daily records have already been set up in Southern California. On Tuesday, Palmdale hit 80 degrees and ended his February 25, 1986 record high, and Santa Barbara broke his daily record by two degrees and, according to the National Weather Service 82nd Palmdale, reached a daily record on Monday and scored 80 and 81.

And the heat has not even reached its peak, said Wfford, with the warmest temperatures that are expected in Southern California on Wednesday and Thursday, depending on the area. Warm, dry Santa Ana winds are expected to start early Thursday and will continue to influence the already high temperatures, said Wfford.

“We will have a stronger offshore river that helps to warm up things,” he said. Further record temperatures are possible on Wednesday in the valleys of the Los Angeles district, where the heights reach the low 90s, while the coastal areas can take a thrust from these warm winds on Thursday and set up records in the mid -1980s.

While the winds are primarily expected to increase the temperatures, some areas could occur some rather strong gusts, especially in the Santa Clarita Valley, in the majority of the Ventura district and in the country in the counties and mountain areas in the counties, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego, warned the weather service. On Thursday, up to 55 miles per hour was exhibited on Thursday for a large part of the area south and east of the LA district with gusts.

The National Weather Service warned that such strong winds could make driving for top -class vehicles difficult, down the trees and cause power failures. Fortunately, Wfford said that the winds are not a problem in terms of forest fires.

“We had a lot of rain,” remarked Wfford, which was not the case in early January, as a dangerous Santa Ana's two large firestorm, which would destroy parts of Los Angeles. “In view of the fuel moisture, we should have a little bit about it.”

By Friday, the winds are expected to die when a low -pressure system moves to the region, which will decrease in the temperatures in some areas by 20 degrees, said Wfford. Angelenos with heights in the 80s and 90s on Thursday should expect that this will fall with a probability of rain on Friday in the 1960s.

He said that small rainfall on Friday evening and again on Sunday will be possible before a stronger storm could bring a stronger precipitation in the middle of the next week.

“We are definitely still in the storm lane,” said Wfford. “We're not finished [with winter] still.”