Update: 12:36am from Chief Meteorologist Dave Hovde:
Click HERE for the details on the Flood Advisory issued for parts of SLO and SB Counties along the 166
Update: 11:21pm from Chief Meteorologist Dave Hovde:
Storms have picked up in areal coverage and more activity is upstream and also anticipated in modeling. I am also updating the weather forecast video for this story.
Update: 9:12pm from Chief Meteorologist Dave Hovde:
Update: 8:48pm from Chief Meteorologist Dave Hovde:
The NWS in Oxnard issued this statement on tonight's activity:
Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of northwestern Santa Barbara and southeastern San Luis Obispo Counties through 915 PM Doppler radar was tracking a line of thunderstorms from 6 miles west of McKittrick to near Arroyo Grande. Movement was west at 15 mph. Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail, along with brief heavy downpours and frequent lightning. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Update: 8:41pm from Chief Meteorologist Dave Hovde:
As expected the thunderstorms have formed this evening. Above is a FB Live including the radar at the time of the first storms.
I will continue to add to this story as events warrant.
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The weather around the Central Coast is about to get pretty interesting especially later Monday into early Wednesday. A low-pressure center will spin right on top of the Central Coast which introduces enough instability to lift and twist in the atmosphere for showers and some thunderstorms.
The risk of thunderstorms is considered moderate.
Thunderstorms introduce the possibility of locally heavy rain lightning hail in small tornadoes cannot be ruled out as well. The total amount of rain should stay under 1/2 an inch outside of particularly strong thunderstorm cells.
Temperatures will begin to warm later this week to nearly 80 in the interior close to 70 at the coastal valleys beaches will remain in the 60s. For the coming weekend, temperatures look to again be cooler than average with daytime highs in the 70s and the interior mid-60s in the coastal valleys and 60s at the beaches.
