Summer-like weather has been lingering across Southern California in recent days — but will it stick around?
Temperatures in Orange County’s inland areas on Wednesday, Jan. 14, were about 15 degrees higher than the average, reaching into the mid-80s, and were about 10 degrees higher than normal along the coast, said National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Steward.
Recent windy conditions that brought warm weather in recent days will ease up heading into the weekend, with a marine layer that will return along the coast with patchy clouds and fog, he said.
Onshore winds will kick up along the coast, and a trough of low pressure will bring cooling early next week, but still with above-average temperatures.
“It will be very hit and miss, then we’ll start to see the marine layer start to thicken up and start to form and be more prevalent in the morning hours going into early next week,” Steward said. “We will start to gradually see it cool down going into next week.”
There also appears to be a system brewing for late next week for a chance of rain, he said.