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Your SoCal Weather Report For Wednesday, August 21: Warm today, below normal temperatures into the weekend
Warm temperatures are expected to last one more day, and a cooling trend will move into the region tomorrow.
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Quick Facts
- Today’s weather: Warm, sunny
- Beaches: upper 80s high, 62 low
- Mountains: mid to upper 70s high, 44 low
- Inland: upper 90s high, 55 low
Happy Wednesday! We've made it to the middle of the week and our reward is an incoming cool down into the weekend.
An increase in marine layer clouds will begin tomorrow, and temperatures will be well below normal Thursday through Saturday. Thursday highs will drop to 3 to 8 degrees below normal.
The inland coastal areas like downtown L.A., Hollywood and Norwalk will be sunny with highs in the 80s to around 90. This evening should be mostly clear with temperatures dropping to the lower 60s.
L.A. County beaches like Long Beach and Santa Monica should be sunny. Highs will be from the mid 70s to around 80. Tonight, will be mostly clear early followed by some clouds and fog. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Southwest winds around 15 mph in the evening.
The inland valleys including areas like East L.A., Pasadena and Pomona are expected to be sunny with highs in the lower to mid 90s. At night, it'll be mostly clear except with some patchy low clouds with lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s. A nice and pleasant day for the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley.
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This day in history
On this day in 1959, it was 45 degrees in Santa Ana, the lowest temperature on record for August.
Things to do
The cool down coming the rest of the week must have everyone itching for some last few Summer nights out. Here's something worth checking out this week to get you out of the house:
- After Hours: Richard Meyer on David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos - Hammer Museum — 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood — Stanford art history professor Richard Meyer pops down to the Hammer this week to lead a conversation about this summer’s exhibit. It’s a unique opportunity to visit the museum at night and explore the exhibit – the first comprehensive survey dedicated to the Filipino artist who died in 2020. His work “cultivated intimate forms of exchange between collaborators, friends, and lovers in the service of ‘cosmic propulsions,’ ‘Impromptus,’ and otherworldly propositions.”
Check out our full list of things to do this week.
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