by Dave Hovde, KSBY Meteorologist

Monday morning much of the Central Coast is looking at what we have seen for seemingly weeks, and that is plenty of marine influenced air.  Clouds were in at the coast and beaches to begin the day and even touched some of the interior valleys early.

A trough in the upper atmosphere is sitting off the West Coast and computer models suggest it’ll sit there much of this week.  This will keep onshore flow going and keep temperatures a few degrees below normal through the period for the Central Coast.  The coolest days look to be today and tomorrow, especially for the interior where only 80s are expected when mid 90s is more statistically average.  As for the beaches and coastal valleys: beaches should see the lower to perhaps mid 60s today with some areas of slow clearing while the coastal valleys should reach into the upper 60s and low 70s.  Tuesday looks similar before temperatures return to roughly normal readings (maybe just a hair below) for Wednesday through the weekend.

The clearing pattern will be similar to what we have seen recently with the interior valley finding the sun first with the coastal valleys second, beaches especially the W and NW facing ones could struggle with clouds into the afternoons.