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Your SoCal Weather Report For Monday, August 19: Warm up begins after a cooler weekend
High pressure system expanding into the region will cause warmer temperatures today and tomorrow.
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Quick Facts
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- Today’s weather: Warm, sunny
- Beaches: 80 high, 66 low
- Mountains: 85 high, 70 low
- Inland: 93 high, 65 low
Happy Monday! It's going to be a sunny and warm start to the week today and tomorrow due to a high pressure system expanding into the region. Marine layer cloud coverage will be greatly reduced today and Tuesday, but will increase in the latter half of the week.
Highs from the beaches to downtown Los Angeles will be in the 80s to around 90. In the San Gabriel Valley, temps will range from the upper 80s to the mid 90s. Temperatures will rise in the San Fernando Valley to between 93 and 100 hundred degrees. Meanwhile, it'll be a similar story in the Santa Clarita Valley. The Antelope Valley could reach as high as 102 degrees.
Tomorrow is supposed to be the hottest day of the next seven days, followed by a noticeable cooling trend on Wednesday. Most areas will be 3 to 6 degrees cooler compared to Tuesday.
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Local north to south offshore pressure gradients will move across Santa Barbara County. This offshore gradient should be strong enough tonight and Tuesday to generate advisory level "sundowner" winds across the southwest portion of the county.
This day in history
On this day in 1983, the lowest maximum temperature on record of 74 degrees in Riverside remarkably occurred on the same day as the highest minimum temperature of 70 degrees.
Things to do
It's the perfect weather for a ball game. Here's a local game to check out if you have the time:
- Hello Kitty Night: Dodger Stadium — 1000 Vin Scully Ave., Elysian Park — Hot off the news that Hello Kitty is not in fact a cat, but a little girl from London, the icon herself returns to Dodger Stadium to throw out the first pitch as the Dodgers take on the Seattle Mariners. Fans will receive a Hello Kitty 50th Dodgers Plush and Paper Crown giveaway item to celebrate her birthday (but get there early!).
Check out our full list of things to do this week.
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