Fog and Drizzle Short Term. Basically, more of the same Long Term.

This time of year you can pretty much tune out and have a pretty good guess on what the weather will be like.  Kind of like the run we have right now.  Overnight, clouds move in from the ocean.  Fog thickens and the overnight low is hovering a bit above 50F.  Morning breaks thick, damp and cool.  A bit of blue sky pokes through up by the hills around 10AM.  A breeze kicks up off the ocean and it is predominately sunny by just after noon.  Temps peak out a hair above 70F.  A touch cooler along the water's edge.  Check back in in late September when summer is finally over and things begin to get a bit more interesting.  Or you can pay attention so that you are not stuck inside doing some mundane project when the good days show up.  Not that we really have any of those on the radar.  The details...

Foggy mornings and small waves.  Must be summer time.  The Hook, Santa Cruz.

The next few days look especially grey in the mornings.  Drizzle is to be expected.  Not really the best weather for tomatoes, although ours are still looking quite healthy.  The afternoon sun is helping.  We should see the sun on Wednesday, but some spots that really trap the moisture could stay patchy throughout the day.  Dreary, yes.  More of the same through Friday.  Still a bit of a chance of some eddy wind flow which does not help in promoting sunshine.  By Saturday we see more of a robust high pressure returning, and along with that north west flow and sunnier days.  Expect the burn off earlier in the morning over the weekend.  Or let us at least hope that is what happens.  The good news wrapped up in all of this is that the afternoon highs and overnight lows should be climbing a bit over the week.  Today's 51/71 is next week's 54/74.  Wow.

What is interesting to me, if the feature may be keeping the winds at bay the next few days.  A small, tight low pressure system wound up the past few days just south east of the Aleutians.  By winter standards, this storm would be pretty small and insignificant.  But being that we are smack dab in the middle of summer, this thing is awesome.  For the surfers, we should see a small mid period swell coming from the northwest sometime late Friday and into the weekend.  Might need to take a trip up to OB if the morning winds would cooperate.  The remains of the storm winds down in the Gulf the next few days, suppressing the high pressure a bit.  More low pressure is forecast to move into the Gulf next week, although this system in much weaker and much broader.  Of weather interest for sure.  We will have to watch how all this plays out.  The fantasy models have rain hitting the west coast in two weeks from Canada all the way down into Mendocino County.