HAPPINESS
IS A WARM CUP
February 25, 2026 12:48 pm
Southern California Overview:
- Weak onshore flow will bring slight cooling to the coast today and a possible brief return of low clouds and locally dense fog near the coast late tonight into early Thursday. For Thursday and Friday, high pressure aloft and weak offshore flow will bring warming with high temperatures on Friday as much as 25 to 30 degrees above average for portions of the inland valleys and lower coastal slopes of the mountains. For Saturday through Monday, high pressure aloft will weaken and lower-level flow will become onshore and strengthen. This will spreading cooling and higher coastal humidity inland with high temperatures for next Monday around 5 degrees above average.
- Critical Fire weather conditions continue in the Southern Plains through the end of the day. Clipper system to bring Lake Effect snow to the Northeast, and showers and thunderstorms to the Southeast beginning on Thursday. Warm temperatures and dry conditions continue for much of the West, before precipitation returns in the Northern Plains and Rockies in the wake of a frontal system to end the week.