California Weather: On the Road — Warming Up, Fire Concerns & Air Quality Issues

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]It's June 1st. I'm in the van up on the North Coast taking a little vacation in the most beautiful state in the United States, I think, California. And this is how it looks right now in Los Angeles.

[00:00:10]There's some air quality stuff there.

[00:00:12]This whole week is going to be marked by temperature increases, breezy conditions in the central valley. Um, and I think air quality will follow suit and then fire danger becomes a concern because it's going to be very warm to hot the next couple weeks. Really, there's a warm-up then a cool down. We'll get to that. We start off with just some kind of what's happening now. We'll go to the satellite image and we'll initiate. See that big low right there? We'll initiate that and go, okay, let's see what that looks like in the computer models as we push forward 24 36 48 and even 7 days out. We'll look at California temperatures. Then we'll go to California north to south. And that's just taking the stuff we just looked at and going, "Oh, this is what it looks like live or essentially live." So, we work our way down the coast. We even actually look at some reservoir levels.

[00:00:57]Uh we'll look at the air quality most certainly and then we get to nature snacks. One of my favorite parts of the broadcast just because it's you know it's California stuff except for the puffins. They're east coast but we have west coast puffins. We'll talk about that as well. So again air quality in Southern California not so awesome. Surf along the coast in San Francisco. The swells dropped a little bit and rip currents are there for sure. And some of the weather surface offices are warning about cold water because we've had some upwelling as you know. There's the satellite image and that low looks awesome, right? You're like, "Hey, that thing looks like it's got nothing but game, but it really doesn't have nothing but game. It doesn't really have game."

[00:01:35]Let me see if I get the cursor in here.

[00:01:37]It's got it's spinning out out here and it's losing a lot of its energy. It's very impressive looking. It will generate some swell. If we come in a little bit closer, you can see some of the cloud cover, the fog anyway, and kind of showing just a little bit of fog up around Monterey. You can see it in Selenus area and then down towards Big Su. No fog on the north coast where I am. It's clear. That's because there's some strong north winds. And then you see the various eddies down in Southern California and the kind of the mosaic of designs that the the wind that northwest wind right now is is causing. So you got fog at Oceanside, fog in San Diego as well. So this is weather service office out of Sacramento. Great office by the way. I always say that but it's true.

[00:02:20]So, they're basically saying, look, that's a moderate heat risk. A big heat risk, no. Moderate heat risk, yes. Heat affects the most people. So, when temperatures do get into the mid 90s over the next week, um that's, you know, if you don't have air conditioning and you're in a trailer or you're unhoused, I mean, it can be I I've live without air conditioning. You live without air conditioning. It's going to be three or four days in Sacramento of 94 95 degree weather. Moderate, not extreme. That's what they're saying there. They're also talking about the breezy conditions in the Central Valley. 24-hour max gust, then they could reach up to 25 30 miles an hour as we go through time. That's just a way to let you know that hey, it's going to get a little bit breezy.

[00:02:58]And then these are uh National Weather Service out of hand from saying it's going to get warm. It's going to get hot. There's a 65% of temperatures above 95 degrees this coming Friday, this coming Tuesday, Wednesday for Fresno.

[00:03:12]So, they're just saying, hey, again, same thing, moderate risk. We can look at the rivers and streams. is cold.

[00:03:18]Also, the ocean, right, because of upwelling. So, there school's out for a lot of people or it's senior week or whatever the heck it is. And kids in my world anyway, we all flock to the rivers or the oceans. And so, the concern there is for hypothermia, obviously. And then the kind of quick watches and warnings along the coast. You can see there's a a small craft advisory in purple and that kind of creepy green. I don't really like that green color. Kind of teal, right? But that's a high surf advisory and beach warning. So, there's some pretty good surf out there right now.

[00:03:51]Temperatures are on the moderate side.

[00:03:52]We get to the models. And this is a um temperature anomaly map. And what you're looking at here is temperature anomaly.

[00:04:01]It's warmer than average or warmer than it normally is in the oranges, cooler than average in the purples, and you'll see warmer than normal. This is upper atmosphere stuff, but you see that little bump? That's a ridge right there.

[00:04:14]That little bump right, that little right there. That's a ridge developing.

[00:04:18]Never really develops strongly, but it doesn't go away. The Pacific high starts to develop. See it pushing out from here. These highs kind of bubble up, right? And so that's above average temperatures. That's on Wednesday and Thursday. So starting today through Wednesday, Thursday, now we're into Friday.

[00:04:38]And you see that low come in, but that low, it cools us off a little. It takes us out of the mid 90s on Friday and back into the low 90s. But then it immediately warms up again next week. So we're into a warm period, right? And will this change? Yeah, it'll change for sure. Get some coffee.

[00:04:57]What does it mean to you and me? Means it's going to feel like summer and it's really it's early June. These are forecast temperatures. Let me see if I come in a little closer.

[00:05:07]Forecast temperatures for Let's go past today. Let's go to tomorrow. So tomorrow's highs. Reading 92, Bakersfield 95, Los Angeles not quite feeling it yet, right? So there's the heat. So that's day that's day that's tomorrow. Now we'll go to Wednesday. Hang on.

[00:05:25]Wednesday afternoon right here, right? So it's so Wednesday and that's one of the warmer days.

[00:05:33]Moderate heat, right? None of it's aggressive. This is the G. Oh, no. This is a Euro model. Uh I just decided to use it because I don't use it very much.

[00:05:41]I thought I'd take a look at it. And then this is Thursday. That looks a little warmer, right? Los Angeles, San Bernardino's in the low 80s. Bakersfield mid 90s, but see how it's holding steady in the central valley. All right. And then the thing I did point out, so we'll go through a couple days. We'll get to these hundreds. There's some hundreds that show up after the weekend into next week. I think some hundreds, right? Come on. Where are they? Not really. Where are they? Maybe it's next weekend. There it is. Yeah. So, and then next weekend the the 12th of June. So, none of it's earthshattering. This is the wind. This will be um this is 10 meter wind. So, not at 18,000 ft. Not at um thou 1,000 ft. We're at 10 10 meters, I think. And this is the GFS. And so, contours help. The numbers will pop in.

[00:06:30]Central Valley on Tuesday, you see down around Fresno, 17 mono. Again, not crazy. None of it's crazy. gets pretty windy here right there. That's on Tuesday. That's going to be a northnor northwest wind coming through the valley. 20 mph gust up around Bakavville, Fairfield.

[00:06:49]Yeah, none of it's earth shattering that offshore gets going. Look at those colors. Look at these reds. 50 miles an hour. 53 miles hour. So, this really starts to get windy on Wednesday afternoon. So, you guys, Wednesdays, if you're fisherman, pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good.

[00:07:07]And then somewhere around Wednesday, the winds really start humping.

[00:07:11]And then look at that. Wow. That's on uh Wednesday the 3. Yeah, look at that. 60 mph winds off. So that's that's that's a really aggressive high pressure. This is going to be a north generally a northn northwest wind especially. You can tell why how do you know that? Well, a lot of other ways to figure it out. But also the reason it's blowing that hard offshore, right? So it's it's harder. If it was in if it was funneling a northeast wind, you'd see the yellows in the central valley. That make sense? And that the yellows are the darker reds. So rainfall, are we going to see any GFS loading up? Loading up nothing. Countries, you know, middle of the country is getting rain.

[00:07:54]That's the time of year it's interesting is there's parts of the country we're so me Mediterranean climates. This is all the way through next week. Look at that big hole. That's a ridge of high pressure. So above average temperatures.

[00:08:04]A lot of parts of the country don't get um their rain in the winter. We I never really think about it. I always like it's Mediterranean climate. We're wet winter. We're going to be wet. In summer, it's drought. Some some areas of the country in the in the plains and other elsewhere, they get most of their rain spring through summer, right? Most of their precipitation, most of that. So it's sort of a little different if you live in California. These are the forecast highs for today. Yeah. Yeah, it's a fun trip. I I just camped the coast um with Pam and the dog and uh she's gonna let me surf a little bit. I got a couple spots lined up and then gonna do some This is today. Gonna do some mountain bike and I brought a fly rod, too.

[00:08:46]I know if you guys got any thoughts on the eel. I' I've never fished it actually. Um or maybe I end up on the Smith, too. Or maybe even the Clamoth. I don't even know. I'm gone for a while.

[00:08:56]So, I'm gonna try to keep these updated just so it's not going to be the awesomest. Um, what I mean by that, it's not gonna be awesome me spending an half hour hour putting together. It's gonna me just kind of go boom boom go ride the bike, right? Because, um, I want to get, but I do, you know, truthfully, a lot of this is for me because I just because it's it's helping me decide what I'm going to do today. This is the low out here. Satellite. I'm not going to do national today for sure. There's Mount Shasta might end up over there, too. I don't know. Looking at that. I love the new Clamoth where they pulled the uh the dams out. Have you seen Damn Nation yet?

[00:09:31]That's that's a couple you guys have typed in. I really highly recommend it if you're California native um and you care about uh the health of yeah the health of the United States. These damning reversion streams really you'll see the problems it causes. It's so well done. It's so well done and there's not it's not some woke agenda thing. It's just the reality of cutting off rivers.

[00:09:57]Um, this is uh where I am right now. I'm actually up in the hills and actually I'm over I'm up north here kind of up by Patrick's Point. Um, but it's that kind of day. It's going to be that kind of day tomorrow. I kind of picked the right weather for sure which always makes the wife happy. Um, this is Mount Diablo.

[00:10:15]Air quality looks okay. Air quality is kind of very noticeable today. I pulled up these are the offshore winds. So the winds in that per are still offshore where I am at the coast up this way.

[00:10:26]it's not that windy, but offshore it's 41 miles an hour. And along the near coast in say Point Ray is 15 miles an hour and up around Reading, there's some wind as well. There's some 25 mph winds.

[00:10:40]So, not that not really that aggressive.

[00:10:42]And then we can look at the sounding. I don't know if this will show up with the way this sets up. I have to move this bad boy.

[00:10:51]This uh there's the sounding right here.

[00:10:53]So, and remember the sounding is just the balloon that goes up in the morning and it shows you there's the temperature.

[00:11:03]See how it's warming as it goes up a little bit and then cools. So, that's kind of that's a little bit unusual.

[00:11:09]That's a little bit of a surface inversion, but it's not it's I wouldn't call it anything. Basically, the red line, the temperature and the due point are really far apart. That's why there's no fog on in this in case it's saying this is Mary'sville. I don't know how I got Mary'sville. I guess it's San Mary'sville. We want to San Francisco.

[00:11:25]Let's do Mar San Francisco and see what the the sounding these soundings are derived.

[00:11:32]Okay, San Francisco does have a little see at the at the sea level the blue is close to the red. So there is some fog and we did we did see that or we will see that again. And then as you go up the air dries out that's the high pressure. So just a way to kind of tell stuff. Yeah. And there's the right there's the fog at the surface. There's the inversion. It's right at the ground.

[00:11:55]Right at the ground. Really shallow. And then as you go up, it gets mixed out.

[00:11:59]This fog goes away really quickly. And then this that this is uh Mount Tamopayas. Temperatures today, San Francisco generally going to be in the 60s and then Bay Area generally be in the 70s, low 80s. Air quality, let's see. Hope you're having a good day. All right. I have to talk about I'll think of something. This is this is air quality.

[00:12:25]Uh and it's going to get a little sketchy. You can even see the Bay Area.

[00:12:28]That's where we are. Remember that shower inversion we just looked at where that really I mean that's a shallow inversion when it's right at the ground kind of. You saw the pictures won't last long, but you can see why the air quality is less than stellar yellow and some even some oranges. This measuring particulate matter. Um that was me trying to illustrate the winds again.

[00:12:47]This is uh Fulsome Lake. Is it Fulsome?

[00:12:50]Yeah, that's Fulsome Lake. Fulsome Lake today. They're going to go probably Let's see what I say on that. Let's Let's take a look. I got to remember.

[00:12:56]Sorry. Flesome's going to go 92 today.

[00:13:01]And you can see the lake. And I just wanted to point out that it is full as all get out. It's at n 119% of historical. It's 3% from the top. So it's 97% from the total. this is all we can handle. So, good good res all the reservoirs are peaked right now. Um, and that's because of the early snow melt, the runoff, right? The last last rain we had was awesome. Um, this is Bakerfield and the air quality doesn't look so great there either. Had a couple fires down there. I checked them this morning on watch duty. Um, we'll check them in a minute, but this is the air quality. You can see LA is not so great, but you see Fresno, that's some of the smoke from the fires they had earlier. couple fires popped up his watch duty. Um, and this is the kind of pattern now where you got to pay attention starting now because you got wind and you got heat. It's California summer, but it's wind and heat. And that's enough to to create a a concern every day. You know, you're going to be looking out, you're going to either smell smoke, see smoke, hear about smoke, see air quality that's less than awesome because that's air quality that's less than awesome. That's the Bakersfield area kind of by grapevine.

[00:14:15]Let's put some motion on it. See what we got. So, that represents the sounding in some aspect, too. Yeah, that's that's smoke from those fires. There are a couple little fires. They squished them really quick. And then Los Angeles.

[00:14:27]We'll do the live picture coming up, but that's Los Angeles right there. And if I go Los Angeles, um, let's see if we go LA on the sounding. See what we got.

[00:14:39]Just curious. I got to believe the sounding is pretty.

[00:14:46]Yeah, it's still Daily City. We go to LA. Let's get LA here.

[00:14:51]There it is. Oh.

[00:14:55]Oh, look. Can you That's That's the wrong place. Sorry. Let's go right to the water's edge here. Um, they don't always initiate. Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:15:05]So there you're looking at you see down here where the two it's basically that's the inversion that's the temperature it's cooling cooling cooling cooling and starts warming when they have cool air and this is warm air see underneath it is the cool air cool air sink so there's stability there and so that's the layer and so the top of that the bottom of that inversion is about 1,000 ft so air quality in Los Angeles today less than awesome and that's that's is the same thing with San Francisco same kind of the sounding. We did look at that. So there's Santa Barbara.

[00:15:39]They've got about a 1300 foot inversion.

[00:15:42]There's Mount Wilson where air quality is not great. Mount San Gorgio.

[00:15:47]Um and then San Diego. Okay. And then nature. Okay.

[00:15:54]Getting through this man. Oh guy's thinking about Look at you. Or he's posing for a picture.

[00:16:03]What's going on there, man?

[00:16:06]That's like That's like the the um movie poster for Big Wednesday or something.

[00:16:15]I wonder what he's thinking. There's two things going on with this dude. I got to check my time. How much time I got left?

[00:16:21]I don't even know. Let's see. There's two things going on with this guy.

[00:16:24]Either he's just learning and just got a board and it's going, "Oh man, I don't know. I don't know." Or he went out and got spanked and he's just standing there going, "I don't know. I don't know." Or he went out there and saw something like a fin and oh man, I ain't going back out there. Or maybe he's waiting for his buddy. Okay, let's check it. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, they're going out together.

[00:16:50]Yeah.

[00:16:52]Okay. Mr. I entertain myself. This is uh Point Conception.

[00:17:00]Always pleasant looking. They got a shallow inversion as well. This is uh Carl's bed. I messed it up the other day. I couldn't remember. I was like, great. Nice work. Carl's bed. All cars.

[00:17:10]We rarely a bad day. Carl's bed.

[00:17:15]Man, I liked this shot. I'm gonna move this. This is um Lake Tahoe. And I loved this Eddie.

[00:17:24]Clearly the wind has created a flow. I hope it's still there. This is Come on.

[00:17:30]Come on.

[00:17:32]There we go.

[00:17:34]I want to see it. And if you're in now, we're all in, right? I know. I'm not taking advantage of you. I'm taking advantage of me. Okay. Let's Yeah, it's still kind of there. So, that's just that's just wind, right?

[00:17:49]That's just a earlier there was more of a cinnamon roll like an Eddie kind of awesome puffins. These are East Coast puffins.

[00:17:57]Do something. Boys, girls, they're mating is what they're doing. They're getting on it. And uh these are East Coast. Ours are tufted puffins. They're they're they're not quite as vibrant, I don't think. I've never But they're tufted. And but the thing that's most amazing about these guys is they spend 7 to nine months out at sea.

[00:18:20]I don't know just floating around just doing their thing. And then when they come, this is a time of year in the Pacific as well where they come on shore.

[00:18:28]This starling's kind of seasoned up on me a little bit. Um they come on shore and they uh breed and they come on shore like they come on shore in rocky outcrops. That's palaces. We're not going to see much there on rocky outcrops so they can have their eggs and mate and do their stuff. And then these are the babies who are no longer babies.

[00:18:48]They're just big.

[00:18:52]Let's see what I'm going to go live on this. Can I? Yeah, they were snoozing last I checked. Oh no, they are awake.

[00:18:59]Can you believe how big they are?

[00:19:03]So they're they are fledging hard. Wow.

[00:19:06]They keep their um it's for a couple years they they don't bald. They don't they don't have the white heads right away. I think it takes a year or two for their head to turn white. So would you you would see these eagles. I would being me not a super strong bird guy. I would uh sorry about that. I would um I would uh I would think they were um maybe a golden. I know, novice. They're beautiful, though. I don't even know if I'm running out. If I ran out of time, I apologize. I can't see the clock on this.

[00:19:44]Oh, that's nature is awesome. Like they go, he knows to back up to the edge of Nash and throw it out. He's just a kid. Like I was, you know, I don't know. I was a kid. I used to Right. So, that's kind of interesting that they're so nest aware nature. And then Venice Beach.

[00:20:03]All right. Then we did it. So, thanks for I appreciate your supportiveness. Um, I have a cool meeting with Loganas on Friday. Next Friday, this Friday on the way back down the coast, I'm going to meet with them.

[00:20:18]We're talking about some kind of a brand alignment, which might be kind of cool because I like beer. Um, and I like Loganas because they're local California. Um, they're the fourth largest beer company, I think, craft beer. Um, oh, so I'm going to be gone a while. Um, I'll try to chime these in just because when it's interesting. Um, right now I'm going to go do fun stuff.

[00:20:42]Appreciate the follow. Love it when you guys comment and ask questions. I try to answer all of them. Some of them I don't only because especially on this run because uh it takes you know if you sometimes it's like well so what exactly is it when this and and then I kind of don't want to give you a yes no answer.

[00:20:58]I try. You know, I always say awesome.

[00:21:01]What was the other one? I do. Uh, appreciate you. But it's true. I do appreciate you, dude. I do appreciate the camera. And it is awesome. But literally, I I do it. It adds up when you're trying to answer everybody's questions. And I'm not the best communicator and not on text. All right, I'm rolling. See you guys.