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  • Memorial Day forecast: cool at the beach
    A map of Southern California is colored in shades of green, yellow and orange. It is superimposed with names of SoCal cities and numbers ranging from the high 50's to mid 80's, indicating daytime highs for the region.
    A map shows the temperature variations across Southern California
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      • Today’s weather: Warm, partly cloudy
      • Beaches: upper 60s high, mid 50s low, 1.5" surf
      • Mountains: 59 high, 25 low
      • Inland: 84 high, 50s low

    What you should know: If you’re heading to the beach it’ll be cool up and down the SoCal coast, with temperatures reaching the high 60’s with partly cloudy skies. Don’t let those cloudy schools fool you - make sure to still wear your sunscreen.

    Quick Facts
      • Today’s weather: Warm, partly cloudy
      • Beaches: upper 60s high, mid 50s low, 1.5" surf
      • Mountains: 59 high, 25 low
      • Inland: 84 high, 50s low

    Happy Memorial Day to all. Though today will start off with the grey skies we’ve become accustomed to over the past month, clouds should burn off by this afternoon providing sunny skies for Memorial Day commemoration events and bbq’s across the region.

    If you’re heading to the beach it’ll be cool up and down the SoCal coast, with temperatures reaching the high 60’s with partly cloudy skies. Don’t let those cloudy schools fool you - make sure to still wear your sunscreen.

    In Los Angeles highs will reach into the lower 70s, slightly warmer in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys. We’re just a few degrees below normal but come Wednesday the areas will see highs in the mid to possibly upper 70s. Nigh time will see temperatures in the upper 50’s tonight and throughout the week.

    Orange County will be warmer today than it was over the weekend, with most of inland OC looking at partky cloudy - but mostly sunny skies - in the mid 70’s. Temperatures will drop to the low 60’s tonight.

    Out in the Inland Empire it’ll be warmer today too, most of the region will be sunny with highs in the mid 80’s with nighttime temperatures in the low 50’s.

    This day in history

    On this day in 2019 a late season storm brought 1 to 3 inches of snow to parts of the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains on Memorial Day.

    Things to do

    I'm going to assume that you all have plans firmly in place for the last day of this holiday weekend - good for you!

    If not, here's an idea: why not check out one of the contenders in LAist's Tournament of Cheeseburgers? You have until this Thursday, May 30th to cast your vote as we whittle down the top 32 contenders to the Savory 16!

    Check out our full list of things to do this week.

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