Good morning and happy Wednesday!
A WIND ADVISORY is in place through noon for our valleys and mountains due to gusty Santa Ana winds that will persist throughout the morning and into this afternoon. Easterly wind gusts will be the strongest within this timeframe, but there will still be isolated wind gusts across these regions through tonight.
Some areas we will closely monitor today include Ramona, Alpine, Campo, Pine, Valley, and Julian. Peak wind gusts since midnight have reached close to 45 mph for Buckman Springs and Alpine.
In the meantime, these easterly winds coupled with high-pressure buildings over the west will warm us up today, west of the mountains. Sometimes, valley temperatures will be about 15-20 degrees above average. It will be the warmest day of the week.
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We’ll see the return of patchy fog tonight through tomorrow morning for the coast, which is a trend that could continue through the end of the week. Temperatures will trend warmer through Thursday before tapering closer to seasonal averages by the weekend. By Saturday (first day of winter), we’ll be close to the mid-60s at the coast and low to mid-70s over the valleys.
Dry and mild conditions are expected on Christmas Eve, which will continue to Christmas Day/first night of Hanukkah.
WEDNESDAY
- Coast: sunny - low 70s
- Valleys: sunny, dry - upper 70s to mid-80s
- Mountains: breezy, dry - mid-60s
- Desert: Mostly sunny - mid to upper 70s