THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – Happy Sunday… and Happy February! As we kick off the second month of the year, the weather remains unseasonably warm, with highs about 10-15° above normal for the next few days. We hit 82° in Palm Springs yesterday. Expect similar conditions today as our weather pattern stays quite consistent. We
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Good afternoon! It is yet another fantastic day here locally in the Coachella Valley. The sun is shining, and there are virtually no clouds to be seen. Temperatures are warm again today, with dry air and mild winds. This is a result of the broad ridge of high pressure over Southern California and the western
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – We’ve made it to the weekend – and the final day of January! We have some warm weather on tap throughout Saturday and Sunday (and really, into next week, too) as we roll on into the second month of the year. We’re still seeing pleasantly cool morning temperatures before climbing
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It is another warm, sunny, and gorgeous day here in the Coachella Valley. High pressure continues to build over the region. This is bringing us those clear skies, calm winds, warm temperatures, and dry weather. This pattern will remain in place for quite some time and will dominate our weather pattern for the foreseeable future.
Continue ReadingHighs are climbing and will remain in the 80s well into next week! Coastal temps will rise to near-record levels, with high temps here not quite at record numbers. We’ll enjoy these warmer-than-normal conditions through all of next week. A weak trough flirts with SoCal Sunday into Monday, so we’ll see partly cloudy skies and
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Warm and quiet weather will settle into the Coachella Valley for the remainder of January and into the start of February. A fantastic VillageFest evening with mostly clear skies, mild evening temps and overnight lows staying just above seasonal norms (after a colder start earlier this week). Our nice warming trend continues through at least
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Clouds are clearing out and temps will warm up, expecting upper 70s later this afternoon. And it will be a beautiful afternoon and evening for Village Fest in downtown Palm Springs! From the Rockies to the East, the deep-freeze continues, with another storm system threatening snow over the weekend. We’ll see highs warm-up into the
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It’s certainly a bit of a cloudy day here in the Coachella Valley. Despite the upper-level clouds, it remains very dry here at the surface. And it will stay that way over the coming hours. The lack of moisture will allow our temperatures to cool off quite considerably into the low 50s by early tomorrow
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Highs will gradually rise into the lower 80s by the weekend as the Jetstream marches farther North. This afternoon, highs top out in the middle 70s, just a few degrees above average. Bitter cold still grips much of the country East of the Rockies. The mild conditions here in the Valley persist well into next
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A COLD start earlier today around the Coachella Valley with several locations like Palm Springs, Thousand Palms, Indio, and Palm Desert dropping down to the upper 30s this morning! In fact Palm Springs tied the record cold low temperature for todays date. We’ll see another pretty chilly morning waking up Wednesday, but by mid week
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High pressure across the entire region will bring gradual warming for the rest of the week. Highs today will climb to the lower 70s, maybe a degree or two above average. Later this week, highs will climb to nearly 10 degrees above normal, pushing us into the lower 80s! Through the weekend, expect temps to
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Pleasant and mild conditions to kick off the work week across the Coachella Valley today, with some lingering high clouds clearing and locally gusty east winds near our mountain passes and slopes. Winds will ease in the mountains tonight, but set us up for one of the cooler nights of the week with lows dropping
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Highs today will be at or slightly below our seasonal norms (71) but we warm up this week, with lower 80s by the end of the week. High pressure building in across the Western states will provide us with clear skies and warming conditions through the week. We’ll be about 10 degrees above average by
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Today has been nothing but gorgeous locally. Highs are mild, and the sky is mostly clear, aside from a few lingering upper-level clouds. Winds are mild, and the air is dry here at the surface thanks to a lingering offshore pattern. Thankfully, the winds have calmed down from yesterday. Thanks to a mix of the
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – It looks like another beautiful day in the Coachella Valley as we wrap up the weekend. Highs will likely stay pretty seasonal today, in the upper 60s or low 70s, as clouds look to increase through the day. I expect great weather as we look towards the final day of
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It’s another gorgeous afternoon and evening here in the Coachella Valley, with highs again feeling very moderate. The main difference from yesterday is the winds this afternoon. There are some slightly elevated winds this afternoon, mostly staying below 30 mph. This is a result of a low pressure system passing to our south. These winds
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The weather we have here in the Coachella Valley is often among the best in the nation for this time of year. That could not be truer as we look ahead to this weekend. It is overall dry, mild, and calm in the valley to close out the workweek. A minor area of low pressure
Continue ReadingA low sitting off the coast will continue to bring some clouds to the region, and there have been spotty showers in the mountains to our South. Precip. will be minimal around SoCal, with temps hovering near the 70 degree mark. That puts us close to our seasonal norm of 71 through the weekend and
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Cooler temperatures will continue across the Coachella Valley through the weekend, with highs generally close or just below seasonal in the lower 70s. Some very isolated Scattered showers will move through the region tonight, with additional spotty showers possible into Saturday morning, though moisture is limited and rainfall amounts look very limited–additionally it really does
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Highs will run in the lower 70s throughout the weekend, with partly cloudy skies lingering across the region. A “No-Burn” day has been ordered by the South Coast Air Quality Management District due to air quality concerns. This means no wood-fired burns of any kind, outdoors or indoors. An area of low pressure sitting off
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