Winds Easing Overnight Across the Valley

Our cool and gusty weather continues across the Coachella Valley with today expected to be the coolest day of the week. We’ll see our strongest, gusty winds across the mountain passes and deserts.

The good news is we start to see some gradual improvements as winds ease up overnight and we see our Air Quality Alert and Wind Advisory expire at 5am.

It's still a bit cool for early morning temps, so a sweatshirt early on isn't a bad idea. You definitely won't need that for long though as temps warm up just a couple degrees into the low 90s tomorrow.

Looking ahead at this weekend, we’ll see another opportunity for some cooler temps and another shot at wind. 

For now, our trough of low pressure slowly exits east over the Great Basin with a little bit of a short wave giving the potential for some isolated showers in the mountains. We’ll stay mostly dry here across the valley floor. This general troughing pattern will linger through Friday, keeping highs just a few degrees below normal. By Monday that trough pushes east and we'll see some upper level ridging arrive along the West Coast--that means a return to mid 90s and normal temps by Tuesday.

As of 11pm, South Coast Air Quality Management District was reporting hazardous air quality for some parts of the valley.