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Friday's Heat To Give Way to Cold Weekend Rain
The unseasonably warm weather may make you dream of a weekend at the beach, but think again, warn forecasters.
LOS ANGELES, CA -- The Southland basked in unseasonably warm weather for a second day Friday, but temperatures will drop precipitously Saturday -- by 17 degrees at Los Angeles International Airport -- and rain will douse the region on Sunday, forecasters said.
A record temperature for this date of 79 degrees was reached at Los Angeles International Airport, breaking the previous record of 78 set in 1972.
Other highs included 84 in Pomona, 82 in downtown Los Angeles, Pasadena and Woodland Hills, 81 in Chatsworth and at Long Beach Airport, 80 in Burbank, Culver City, Northridge and Van Nuys, 79 in Hawthorne, Torrance UCLA and Santa Monica Airport, 78 in Redondo Beach.
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Orange County highs included 84 in Anaheim and Yorba Linda, 83 in Santa Ana and Lake Forest, 82 at the Fullerton Airport, 78 at John Wayne Airport, 77 in Laguna Beach 75 in Huntington Beach, 73 in Dana Point and 72 in Newport Beach.
The warm weather Thursday and Friday was the result of high pressure aloft caused by an upper-level ridge and to Santa Ana winds, but sea breezes came in during the early afternoon, lowering the temperatures along the coast, according to National Weather Service meteorologists.
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The rain will result from a trough out of the Gulf of Alaska and will not be particularly intensive, producing about a quarter of an inch, but three- quarters of an inch in the mountains and foothills, said National Weather Service meteorologist Curt Kaplan
Temperatures are forecast to be sharply lower amid partly cloudy skies on Saturday.
Saturday's forecast highs include 62 at Los Angeles International Airport, 17 degrees lower than Friday, 66 in downtown Los Angeles, 16 degrees lower than Friday's high, and 67 in Woodland Hills, 15 degrees lower than Friday.
Orange County forecast highs for Saturday include 68 in Yorba Linda, 67 in Irvine, 66 in Fullerton, 65 in Anaheim and Mission Viejo, 61 in Newport Beach and San Clemente and 60 in Laguna Beach.
Temperatures will drop by another several degrees -- up to 12 -- on Sunday, amid rainfall, followed by several days of dry weather
City News Service; Photo courtesy of the LA County Fire Department
