PNW to get Slammed!!

Not quite as warm as I hoped today.  Still quite nice, but that sun ever so much lower in the sky, the mid day heat never quite fully developed.  NOAA is calling for upper 70s for Saturday, and low 70s for Sunday.  Still no real sign of a marine layer developing, nor a strong off shore flow.  Light at best.  So much for an autumn heat up.  Still nice though.  Nothing like the almost nine inches of rain that parts of Washington are expecting over the next five days.  Seven inches predicted at the CA/OR border.  Marin might see a touch of rain to start off next week, but it looks like from SF south it will stay dry, and mostly sunny.

Morning surfers getting to the goods near Capitola, California.

This crazy big storm is also going to send us some waves.  After a small to moderate weekend, and decent sized swell should hit the coast late on Monday.  Longer period and decent sized waves will be something to enjoy and use a little caution around.  These are by no means the big swells of winter, but more sizable none the less.  Might be a bit bigger than this past Tuesday.  With the storm to our north, we see a little cooling on Monday.  Down to around 72F.  Tuesday will try to warm up, but it is getting harder with each passing day.  High pressure will begin to fill in mid week, bringing up some afternoon breezes.  The week will slowly warm, maybe again trying to 80F before the weekend.  We will see.

Long term continues to look interesting.  With a little luck we will see the storm path shift north and pump in some epic weather.  But the NPAC does not look like it is going to quite shut down completely, as more big storms are modeled an week plus out.  Check back here for more updates.