HAPPINESS
IS A WARM CUP
March 31, 2026 5:40 am
Southern California Overview:
- A weak low pressure system moving quickly inland through southern California tonight will bring stronger onshore flow through Wednesday. This will spread cooling inland, bring stronger and gusty southwest to west winds to the mountains and deserts with the stronger gusts to 40 to 50 mph, and bring a chance of showers for late today into Wednesday with the chance for rainfall greatest in the mountains at 40 to 50 percent. Lower-level flow will go briefly offshore on Friday with drying and gusty north to northeast winds along and below the coastal slopes of the mountains gusting to 25 to 35 mph. This will be followed by warming through next weekend with high temperatures warming to 10 to 15 degrees above average for next Sunday.
- Rain/Freezing rain from the Upper/Middle Mississippi Valley to the Northeast. Severe thunderstorms from parts of the Great Lakes/Ohio Valley on Tuesday and over the Central/Southern Plains on Wednesday.