Good morning Central Coast!
This morning is starting off on the chilly side with temps in the 30s in the Paso Robles area low 40s in San Luis Obispo and many coastal valleys. These chilly temps represent about a 15 degree cool down from yesterday in the early morning. The bottom line layers are the name of the game, highs will climb quickly today.
The high pressure sitting just off shore will continue to bring some offshore winds and warmer temps. Today will be very much warm for this time of year, upper 70s and 80s for the coastal and interior valleys. 70s possible at the beaches.
This large ridge of high pressure will fuel locally gusty offshore winds in the night and morning hours. This will keep coastal lows somewhat high due to compressional heating and the daytime highs look mild in the 70s for many. Interior areas will see the mild highs but they miss out on the compressional heating element so the overnight lows are actually pretty chilly in the 30s.
We have no wind advisories, but in Ventura County south into the LA region the offshore winds will be strong enough for those advisories with gusts 30-50mph. Locally some gusts past 20 are possible but generally, the offshore push will be more like 5-15mph. Winds turn back onshore in the afternoon. This tug-of-war with the winds will produce mild temps through Wednesday.
If you are traveling farther afield for Thanksgiving there is a wrinkle in the forecast as a large storm system presses east. This will bring heavy snow to portions of New England, ice and rain to the NYC tristate area and heavy rain with potential thunderstorms as far south as Florida.
Thanksgiving temps will fall a couple of degrees as a trough of low pressure glides into the region. This will bring some dense fog to beach towns for the early morning hours but it shouldn't be anything too problematic.
Conditions look to stay clear and mild all the way into the extended forecast.
Have a wonderful week Central Coast!
