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Climate & Environment

Your SoCal Weather Report For Wednesday, Sept. 27: Enjoy The Warmth While It Lasts

A geothermal map of Southern California in shades of blue and green along the coast and yellow and red for inland areas.
Forecast highs for Wednesday — beach hazards and fire watch advisories are in effect.
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Today's weather is just right for a stroll through the park, a farmers market or your garden. It's also last call for warm days as a cooling trend kicks in tomorrow.

Quick Facts

  • Today’s weather: Warm, sunny
  • Beaches: 70s
  • Mountains/deserts: 70s/80s-104
  • Inland: 90s
  • Warnings and advisories: Dense fog, Fire Watch

We're looking at highs in the low 80s for downtown L.A. and the San Gabriel valley, in the 90s for the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys.

Along the coast, temperatures are staying cool in the mid 70s up to 79 in Long Beach with low clouds through the morning.

More inland, temperatures are still in the low 90s, in the high 80s in Orange County. The high deserts are being spared the scorching temperatures, with temperatures reaching the upper 80s. But in Coachella Valley, it will get up to 104.

The lows for most of Southern California will be in the low 60s.

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That's California weather for you.

Taking a look ahead: Tomorrow we start to see a cool down with temperatures dropping 2 to 5 degrees and even more for the weekend. There's a chance of rain on Saturday evening. It'll feel like late November weather instead. But, if you've been to a 99 cent store, the Christmas decor on the shelves makes it feel like late November already.

About those advisories

There's a dense fog advisory out for Orange County coastal areas until 9 a.m. this morning.

And the weather is making for ripe fire weather conditions, especially in Santa Barbara and the I-5 corridor. The National Weather Service has issued a fire watch starting at 9 a.m. today until Thursday 5 a.m. (that's when the weather is expected to cool down).

A graphic with yellow and red boxes giving warning about fire weather watch. In the middle a yellow aircraft is pictured dropping water.
Fire weather watch is in effect until Thursday morning for portions of SoCal.
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Courtesy NWS
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This day in history

On this day in 1939, it was 30 degrees in Victorville, the lowest temperature recorded for the area.

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Things to do

Give yourself a hug because we made it to the middle of the week. Show Wednesday some love by going out for a change:

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

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