Good morning, Central Coast!
We made it to Friday and conditions are looking good, at least for today.
While there is still some cloud cover this morning it will become more patchy by this afternoon, sunshine will make for a beautiful day. This afternoon winds will shift, bringing in a northerly component will cut heating slightly keeping temps a few degrees cooler than yesterday.
Many seniors are graduating today and for those ceremonies earlier is better, by late this evening it will be cloudy and a bit gusty.
Paso Robles High – June 9 @ 6pm
Nipomo High – June 9 @ 5pm
San Luis Obispo High - June 9 @ 5 PM
Cabrillo High (Vandenberg Village) – June 9 @1 pm
Enjoy the warmer weather and sunshine today though because things are going to get a little tricky later in the forecast. A cold front is pushing south east from the north pacific and will bring cloud cover and rain to us later tonight into early Saturday Morning.
Most weather models are in agreement at this point that scattered showers will begin early Saturday morning and become more widespread through the day.
The morning storms wil likely be simply scattered in nature but by evening they will have a bit more energy and bring thunderstorm chances. Those chances continue through the evening into early Sunday morning. The most chance for accumulating rainfall is in San Luis Obispo County. That being said take caution wherever you are this weekend as these storms will be quick moving and very localized.
The showers will continue into early Sunday morning before moving east and leaving behind chilly and cloudy conditions.
In terms of rain totals, I don't love any of the model outputs but this is one I can get behind (the pattern at least).
The majority of the rain is expected in San Luis Obispo county with 0.1" to 0.2" of rain. Broadly less is expected in Santa Barbara County and in the interior valleys. Localized rainfalls much higher than that are possible where thunderstorms set up shop. In this model Cambria is showing that exact scenario. I doubt that we will see that much rain in that exact spot but localized higher totals are very much expected.
After the cold front moves east things get a bit boring, Monday through Thursday looks pretty quiet inland temperatures start in the low 70s next week and slowly warm to the low 80s by Thursday coastal valleys will continue to see temperatures in the mid to upper 60s with beaches in the 60s. All of that is still below average but at least we should see some sunshine during the afternoon hours during this time frame.
Have a great day Central Coast!
