Much of Southern California will continue to wake up to May’s gray weather, but as the ocean layer gradually fades later this week, temperatures are expected to hit the inland areas.
The coastal areas will continue to see the grey and spotted mist of May that cleared in the afternoon and kept the temperature fairly mild for the next two days.
According to the National Weather Service, temperatures from the beach to downtown Los Angeles will reach heights from the 1960s to 1970s, which is normal this time of year.
“The cool, wet oceans in May and June will continue throughout the week,” said Ryan Pittell, a meteorologist at the Oxnard National Weather Service. “It should shrink, and at least the warmest parts of the valley including North Mountain and Chatsworth may not go through much, which will also allow them to enter the 90s as well.”
Pittel said coastal areas, downtown Los Angeles, and certain areas of the San Gabriel Valley will feel the effects of cool, wet air.
At the end of the weekend from Wednesday to Thursday, the ocean floor will be moderate as the temperatures warm, with temperatures above average Thursday and Friday.
For the Los Angeles coast and downtown Los Angeles, meteorologists predict Friday's highs were mainly in the 1980s. The warming trend of the inland empire will be as high as 10 to 15 degrees above the regional average, with highs ranging from the 1990s to 100 degrees. 103 to 109 degrees in the lower desert.
Southern California temperatures are expected to drop on Saturday and next week.
On Friday, temperatures will rise so high that it is possible to ask for caloric advice or warnings for inland and desert areas, Pittel said. But even if no formal warning was issued, he said residents should take precautions against heat by the end of the weekend.
“The best action for anyone who plans to do anything outside during the day on Friday and Saturday is to adjust these plans as much as possible and try to do it [the planned activity] Early in the day,” he said.
Then plan to spend the rest of your day in a cool or air-conditioned room.
Adjusting the scheduled time for outdoor activities to a two-hour morning, Pittel said, “maybe the difference between life and death.”
On May 10, a 38-year-old man died while attending a half marathon on the One Thousand Oak Trail, a day when the National Weather Service released a hot consultation for the area. The temperature that day was in the 1990s and four other marathon participants were reportedly sick.
“We've gotten rid of the cool seasons and can expect this temperature in July and August, but when they happen in May, our bodies don't have time to adapt to it.”
