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Your SoCal Weather Report For Tuesday, Jan 9: Another Frosty Morning
Today's highs will be similar to Monday's with just 1 to 2 degrees warmer.
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If you're just waking up, it's not just you feeling cold — it's actually freezing in some parts of Southern California.
Quick Facts
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- Today’s weather: Sunny, chilly
- Beaches: low 60s,
- Mountains/deserts: 40s-50s/55-63
- Inland: low 60s
- Warnings and advisories: Freeze, Frost, High Surf and Coastal Flooding
It's another dry, breezy and cold day in SoCal (moisturizer is your friend). Highs from the coast to the inland areas will range in the low 60s, up to 64 degrees in Anaheim and Van Nuys.
The low desert will stay mostly in the mid 50s, whereas in the Coachella Valley expect a high of 63 degrees.
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Tonight's lows will drop between 38 to 42 degrees.
Given the cold snap, don't forget we've got a handy guide for how to keep heat from escaping your home.
About those advisories
Coastal flooding and high surf
Be careful at the beaches these next few days as more high surf and minor coastal flooding will affect SoCal Beaches.
A coastal flood advisory has been issued for Orange and Los Angeles county beaches, including Catalina Island and the Malibu coast where low-lying areas such as parking lots and roads will see some flooding during morning high tide through noon Thursday.
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Starting Wednesday a high surf advisory is in effect — expect large breaking waves of 5 to 8 feet at Orange and L.A. county beaches, including dangerous rip currents. West-facing beaches will see the highest surf where up to 9 feet sets are expected.
Freeze/frost advisories
Santa Clarita Valley, Woodland Hills and Van Nuys are under a frost advisory until 10 a.m.
Meanwhile, San Bernardino and Riverside county valleys are experiencing subfreezing temperatures as low as 27 degrees until 9 a.m.
This day in history
On this day in 2017 a strong mountain wave produced a wind gust up to 107 mph in Burns Canyon, east of the San Bernardino mountains.
Things to do
Enjoy some indoor storytelling on this chilly night.
'Mercury' (Opening Night): Director Ann Hearn Tobolowsky gives her take on the Steve Yockey-written play, Mercury. Three stories cross outside of Portland, Oregon in a black comedy featuring an illicit affair, a couple hanging on by a thread, bears at the window, the worst curiosity shop on the West Coast, and a missing dog named Mr. Bundles.
Check out our full list of things to do this week.
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