An approaching storm will bring another round of powerful winds, blowing sand and dust. Winds arrive this afternoon, and will remain gusty through tomorrow night. Winds will peak near 40 m.p.h. with gusts to 50 m.p.h. through Thursday evening, so there could be significant impacts to air quality, travel, and play at the BNP Paribas
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Meteorological spring began earlier this month on March 1st. Spring is a season of warming all across the US, but spring itself has gotten significantly warmer for many places since the 1970s. This warming has been most strongly felt in the southern tier of the country, and especially here in the Southwest. The only areas
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It’s feeling fantastic outside today! Temperatures are hovering right around the seasonal average and winds are not an issue. This is all thanks to a ridge of high pressure currently over California. There are some big changes in the days ahead, however. Starting tomorrow, an atmospheric river will move into the Golden State. While this
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Today the winds will ease, and highs will rebound to near seasonal norms (77), but there is a moderate storm sliding down the coast that will impact all of SoCal from Wednesday into early Friday. A Winter Storm Watch is up for the mountains in anticipation of that storm. We are currently under an Air
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Tonight we remain under a First Alert Weather Alert as gusty winds continue to impact the Coachella Valley. While our air quality has seen some improvements compared to the weekend, there are some lingering concerns tonight. Our Air Quality Alert was extended through 12PM Tuesday. Winds will stay a bit breezy tonight, especially along the
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This morning, getting in and out of Palm Springs is harder because both Gene Autry and Indian Canyon are closed due to blowing sand and dust. Winds have eased, but there are Wind Advisories in place to our North and South, with a Winter Weather Advisory in the mountains, and an Air Quality Alert for
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THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. (KESQ) – A First Alert Weather Alert remains in place through Monday at 1:00 p.m. as we continue to track dusty & gusty conditions in the Coachella Valley. Our Timo’s Skycam atop Edom Hill is showing much improved conditions compared to last night. We’re not seeing nearly as much haze obscuring the
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A First Alert Weather Alert has been issued for gusty winds, blowing dust, reduced visibility and poor air quality across the Coachella Valley through 1:00 p.m. Monday. Looking at our Timo’s Skycam atop Edom Hill, our typically gorgeous view of the valley has been obscured by dust. Blowing dust has reduced visibility across the valley
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We’re transitioning to cooler and cloudier weather into the weekend and next week, despite daytime highs still remaining above seasonal average until about Sunday. This evening looking partly cloudy, but very pleasant. Look for highs in the 80s through Saturday, before a more noticeable drop in temps. into the 70s come Sunday. Low 70s Monday,
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High pressure moves out, and low pressure moves in bringing some gusty conditions and dropping temps into the weekend. A series of low pressure cells will swing through Southern California over the weekend, with partly cloudy skies, and temps dropping to at-or-below normal levels (76) into next week. Temperatures peaked this week at 97 on
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Finally a cool down is in sight after 3 days of unusually warm weather—even for us here in the Coachella Valley! Yesterday we topped off at 97 degrees, today, more than 10 degrees cooler. A noticeable difference! Tomorrow we’ll take away a few more degrees. This cool down is going to linger around the next few
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We’re been talking about a cooldown for several days now and it’s finally here! An area of low pressure has cut off from the jetstream and is beginning to approach California. While this system is still a few hundred miles west of the coast, it has already started funneling upper level moisture into the region,
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Yesterday we chalked up the hottest day of the year so far, coming in at 97! High pressure will give way to an approaching area of low pressure moves in. A Wind Advisory remains in effect until 4 p.m. for areas West of the Valley, with winds in the 35 to 45 m.p.h. range through
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We hit our 3rd day in the 90s today, nearly breaking the daytime record. We finished at 97 degrees here in Palm Springs, not far from the previous daytime high record of 99! This is all thanks to the persistent ridge of high pressure over the west coast. The lack of clouds and significant winds
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The Coachella Valley is world-renowned for many things ranging from architecture to music festivals to, of course, our hot weather. On average, we typically see our first 90° day around March 11th. That’s about 70 days into the year. Taking a look at the graphic below, we can see a decent spread in the first
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High pressure will bring us another day of highs in the 90s before we see some significant cooling into the weekend. Winds later tonight into tomorrow will bring some cooler temps into play as we wrap up the week. A Wind Advisory goes into place for areas West of the Coachella Valley starting at midnight,
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Even warmer today as Palm Springs experiences it’s second day of the year in the 90s… February is still fairly early for the 90s—even for the Coachella Valley. We broke the record for warmest/maximum low temps after morning temps didn’t even fall out of the 50s earlier today. Temperatures rose a few degrees more this afternoon,
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It’s another warm day here in the Coachella Valley. Skies are clear and winds are calm too. This is allowing highs to reach their full potential and soar into the lower 90s. This warming is a result of a ridge of high pressure. Generally speaking, the jetstream(s) have been pushed to the north across the
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The polar vortex is a persistent area of low pressure dozens of miles above the earth’s poles (both northern and southern). Because the vortex is so high up in the atmosphere, and because it’s over the poles, makes the air very very cold. Every now and then, the jetstream can interfere with and nudge the
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Highs climbed into the 90s yesterday, and we’ll likely see similar conditions through midweek. Much of the country will see above-average highs through this week as that ridge of high pressure builds in across the Western states. Highs will peak tomorrow and then we will see a gradual cooling back towards normal daytime highs. Expect
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