Day 6 of Crescent City, CA (KCEC)

Scattered showers brought a total of 0.26” for day 5. The winds last night were actually the strongest around 08z and registered into day 5 (24 kt or a bit more). It then warmed up to 53-54F, a bit warmer than model guidance, despite almost an almost complete overcast of low clouds. Low clouds will gradually break up tonight, yielding mostly clear skies by late in the night (except some high cirrus), and combined with light winds, will allow for good radiational cooling later in the night. Somewhat higher mid-level clouds might actually move back in tomorrow morning, mitigating the warmup for a while, before clearing by afternoon. Whenever the sun comes out, there will be a rapid warmup initially before the sea breeze kicks in and stops the warmup, with northwesterly winds strengthening in the afternoon after the daytime heating, perhaps stronger than USL, like late last week. The northwesterly winds are a combination of both synoptic-scale winds (with the surface high pressure moving in from the west) and the sea breeze.

 

Source: PivotalWeather