Welcome Back to Summer.

Well, we finally just got our internet up and running after the move.  Hope you did not miss out on too much fun weather while we were gone.  It has been a fairly nice summer thus far in Santa Cruz and we do not see any big changes in the upcoming week.  It is typical summer time here on the central coast.  Foggy mornings with overnight lows around 50F.  Clearing happening anytime between 9am and 1pm, depending on where you live.  West Cliff is seeing sun just before noon right now.  Wednesday is looking like the best chance in the next few days for a clear morning, but don't place too big of a bet on it.  Still, an early clearing will pump daytime highs into the upper 70s.  As we move toward the weekend, the fog will take longer to burn off.  By Saturday, we may see a south breeze develop, keeping that fog bank pushed up against Santa Cruz through later in the day.

Fun summer waves in Santa Cruz.

In short, it has been pretty brilliant out.  The rest of the country is suffering through a pretty gnarly hear spell.  Sure, that could be a little fun if you were snacking on donuts along the beaches of Maine living life like it should be, but not so wonderful if you have an hour commute each way in DC or need to wait to mow the lawn after sunset when temps have finally dropped below 90F.  Hell, with this fog, we barely even need to worry about mowing the lawn at all, because it fails to grow.  And it is looking like the best tomato summer we have had in several summers.  Fingers crossed for no long grey spell that is a harbinger for the funk.  Ironic that this is the first year in memory that I did not get any in the ground.

If you really want it to feel like summer, get yourself down to a beach.  The south swell that we had over the weekend is pretty much all gone at this point.  But if you park yourself on an eastside beach, and just want to kick back and relax, then late morning and early afternoon is where it is at.  26th Ave was looking warm and sunny when I drove by this afternoon.  If natural beauty is more your thing, get up north of town and head out to 4 Mile for a stroll.  Whatever, it is summer.

In short, more of the same.  Chance of a sunny morning early tomorrow.  Warm, in the upper 70s.  Cooler later in the week, with a bit more fog.  Chance of more fog for the weekend and a low 70s or maybe only hitting the upper 60s.  More to come soon.