If Only If.

This morning failed to give us sunshine as a band of moisture, a bit more than just heavy fog socked us in here on the coast.  Seemed like the forecast from last night was wrong, but alas, you just need to sleep in a little on the weekend, as the clouds broke and a glorious day unfolded here in Santa Cruz.  Simply awesome outside during the early afternoon.  For a moment, even I thought that the storm had pass.  But then I thought about it as I was enjoying the sunshine.  That is not likely.  This thing is of decent size and ambling along.  Turns out, this morning was just an early band behind which was a wake of sun until the system actually rolls upon us tonight.  I just looked at the radar and looked outside.  Radar suggests heavy precip just a bit offshore.  Looking out on the bay heavy grey clouds have already started to fill the sky.  Still sunny here along the coast, but clouds are out to sea and piling up on the mountains.  Looks like east coast weather out there.  In fact a thunderstorm is working its way across the Sierra west slope.  Good stuff.  So the forecast remains the same for rain filling in this evening and sticking around during the day tomorrow.  But, hey, maybe we will get blessed with more sunshine.  Always good to keep the hope alive.

Same raptor, from further away.  Its good to have a tow year old around to point out this stuff to you.

I'll take a look at next week maybe tomorrow night and report what I see.  For now, expect clearing on Monday with sun through midweek and rains returning for Thursday and the weekend.  Happy Easter.