Turn That Clock Back.

You get an extra hour this weekend.  Many will tell you to turn that clock back at 2AM on Sunday.  Do what ever you want with your extra hour.  Don't conform.  Turn your clock back anytime, and enjoy (unless you have an appointment that is, then you should stick to the rules).  Always one of my favorite weekend of the year.  Typically wonderful weather.  Even when I lived in Maine, I found it wonderful.  Crisp mornings and fine afternoons with hours of insane light on either end.  We hit 85F on the Westside yesterday.  We were over 80F for over two hours.  Insane.  And the morning we dipped down to about 45F.  Nice and crisp.  This weather is great for a lot of those autumn harvest, as well as what is growing out there right now.  I still have French Pole Beans growing and about to be ready to flower.  If this weather holds. it will be like summer harvest (albeit slower) in November.  And the broccoli is loving it and growing its flower.  Once we lop off its head, it likes to sprout.  Treats for months as long as the soil does not get too soggy.  Yum.

Nevada Falls, above Yosemite Valley.  July 2018.

Light or moderate rain for a day or two at a time will only help.  If you are one of the lucky ones still harvesting tomatoes, a little rain will hurt.  Pick your fruit (even the not yet ripe stuff) before any sure signs of rain in excess of a 1/10".  Those plant have become experts at finding water.  They will burst open anything full on that plant.

As for the weather forecast, well, not much changing in the near term.  Today is going to be awesome.  Warm already.  50F.  About the same as yesterday at 9:15AM.  But you can feel that sun on your back if you are out there.  Wind is already up to 18 mph on the outer Monterey Bay buoy, but things are still pretty calm nearshore, with a 3 mph west breeze at Long Marine Lab.  That will increase around mid day.  The wind really whipped up quickly yesterday around noon.  Expect that today. We will still get warm today due, in part, to the relatively calm morning.  I'd expect mid 70s on West Cliff with a wind chill in the afternoon, and low to mid 80s in the warm spots in town.  Cool again tonight, in the mid to upper 40s.

Tomorrow will see some early nearshore winds.  Not sure how strong or when they will come up.  But they will be significant and not long after sunrise.  That wind regime gets strong in the afternoon and sticks around through at least Monday afternoon.  Expect breezier conditions west and north of town.  Expect high temps to drop 5-10 degrees.  Highs of about 70F to maybe 75F in preferred locations.

Those winds will kick some wind swell, but it will be raw and choppy.  Not much will wrap into town.  Great weekend to go for a ride.  Or a hike.  Or chase tiny surf.  But that is a shame in November.  Maybe just clean up the yard.  The sunny weather will persist through all of next week.  That storm I mentioned last post was walked back over 8 model runs and is now expected to hit near the Alaskan/ Canadian border.  Fine weather continues on the Central Coast.  And now back to looking like the high pressure will migrate west and set up that warm offshore flow I was talking about several posts ago.  Maybe.  Been a strange weather pattern this autumn.  Climate change.