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Your SoCal Weather Report For Friday, April 12: Warm Weather, Leading Into A Mildly Wet Weekend
Forecast highs for Friday.
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Quick Facts
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- Today’s weather: Warm, partly cloudy
- Beaches: 70 high, 52 low
- Mountains: 65 high, 50 low
- Inland: 75 high, 50 low
- Warnings and advisories: A winter weather advisory for the Santa Barbara County and Ventura County Mountains will go into effect Saturday morning.
In today's forecast, a weekend cooling trend is expected to begin as another storm moves into Southern California this evening and Saturday morning. The coldest day this weekend will likely be Sunday.
Rain is forecasted to make ground Saturday morning and likely to last through Sunday. Snow is also expected to blanket the mountains at higher elevations.
A warming trend will arrive Monday, bringing dry weather for next week.
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A foggy marine layer made its way inland this morning extending into Chino and some other parts of the Inland Empire, signaling the arrival of cooler weather for the weekend. Mountains and deserts will experience the most sun today, with inland desert areas reaching into the 90s in the daytime and the mid-50s in the evening.
Although the cooling trend begins today, it will be a mostly warm day with some low cloud cover lingering along the coast. The clouds should clear up inland by the afternoon.
The beaches will reach highs in the 70s, and a low of about 52 degrees. In the mountains the highs will be in the mid-60s yielding to low-50s in the evening. Inland will be warm with highs sitting comfortably in the mid-70s before the stormfront brings temps down to the low-50s.
Winter Weather Advisory
A winter weather advisory for the Santa Barbara County and Ventura County Mountains will go into effect Saturday morning and last until Sunday evening. Moderate snowfall is expected totaling between 4 and 8 inches above 6,000 feet. Winds could reach up to 50 mph.
A break in the storm system is expected Saturday night heading into Sunday morning, before picking up again Sunday afternoon. As for rainfall totals, we'll likely see between a quarter inch to an inch of rainfall for most areas, and potentially up to two inches in the mountains and foothills.
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This day in history
On this day in 1999, a funnel cloud was observed northeast of Temecula.
Things to do
The drizzly weather expected this weekend is the perfect time to check out some of L.A.s indoor activities:
- Ed Ruscha NOW/THEN: LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) — 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Mid-Wilshire — Ed Ruscha’s paintings are synonymous with the Los Angeles landscape — the big pop art lettering, the large-scale images of gas stations, apartment buildings, and even the Hollywood sign. The first retrospective of his work in 20 years takes up all of LACMA’s second-floor gallery space and features both large-scale paintings as well as photographs and written documentation. Highlights are, of course, the chocolate room (please don’t lick the walls, even though it’s tempting!), Ruscha’s photography series of Sunset Boulevard, and his huge 1965-68 work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire, in its namesake location.
Check out our full list of things to do this weekend.
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