It is not even April yet, but Angelen can be testing early by May Gray and June Gloom over the next few days.
The forecasts are predicting a significant stretch of temperatures below the average with a possibility of precipitation.
“It will be at least a week, eight or nine days, of this rainy and fresh pattern,” said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist of the National Meteorological Service in Oxnard. “We will be more great than normal, probably until next week, so using it.”
Temperatures are expected to remain in the 60s, several degrees below normal, during the next week or so. The average for this time of the year is around 71 degrees in downtown Los Angeles, Wofford said. It was expected that the maximum of Friday would reach 66 degrees, before falling over the weekend.
“We are running between 3 and 8 degrees below normal, and it will remain like this or even become a little fresher,” Wofford said.
A series of storms of the Northwest of the Pacific are driving this fresh, cloudy and humid pattern, the first of which could attract precipitation to Southland on Sunday.
But it is supposed to only bring light rain, possibly up to a tenth inch in some areas, Wofford said. And although there is the possibility of more storms next week, he said that anyone is unlikely to bring the total of the week above half an inch.
However, with the prognosis still a bit uncertain, the possibility of heavy rain is not completely ruled out, according to the modeling of the weather service.
Although rain is a particularly sad beginning for April, the change in the weather could generate some relief to the dry landscape of southern California, which remains in severe drought conditions, according to the US drought monitor.
