Forecasters expect a moisture-starved inside slider like last week's storm system, only this one looks even drier
If you liked Southern California’s windy weather over the last few days, you should love the system expected to arrive over the weekend.
Another moisture-starved low-pressure system, known as an inside slider, will move into Northern California on Sunday, bringing a few degrees of cooling and increasing clouds but no precipitation. The trough will move farther south Monday, bringing the potential for strong, gusty winds lasting into Tuesday., according to Kathy Hoxsie, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Oxnard. Our next inside slider will be a little drier, and the winds won’t be quite as strong.
The winds are a product of the relative position of the low and a big Pacific high off the coast, which creates a strong pressure gradient that intensifies the winds. The effect is the same as classic Santa Ana winds, but the cause is different, said Patzert.A low-pressure system called an inside slider — because it moves southward over land instead of water — interacts with a large Pacific high-pressure system to create a strong pressure gradient and strong winds.
“An offshore flow scenario like this gives us some of the cleanest air of the year,” said Patzert. “The good news is that the air is clean, but the bad news is that it’s full of pollen from the high desert. It’s clean but sneezy weather.” Another piece of bad news is the lack of rain as the blocking high in the Pacific dominates. Northern and Central California continue to lag further behind normal as the rainfall season progresses, and some Southern California locations that were normal or above are also slipping below normal.has definitely fizzled,” said Patzert. “We’re on a dry trajectory and reaching normal will be a stretch.”
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