From Daniel Swain at the California Weather Blog:
February has thus far felt a lot more like July across a wide swath of California. Almost no precipitation of significance has fallen in California since the start of the calendar month, and record high temperatures have been set nearly every day in at least a few locations. The heat in Southern California has been truly sweltering: recent daily maximum temperatures exceeding 90F in the Los Angeles area have actually exceeded average summer temperatures on multiple occasions. Even in the Bay Area and Central Valley, temperatures have reached 80 degrees during the height of winter.
The proximal cause of this record warmth and widespread mid-winter dry spell is (perhaps unsurprisingly) the development of a strong high pressure system roughly aligned with the West Coast of North America. … ”
Continue reading at the California Weather Blog here: Recent record warmth to be interrupted by Wednesday storm; long term prospects mixed
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