8/5 – Rob’s “Rainy” Monday Morning Forecast

Seems like a daily routine of a nocturnal crop of showers/t-storms near shore with a few moving inland during the early morning hours. Then this process is repeated inland during the day. This should be the case each day until the end of the week. The upper high over the SW will move a bit east by the end of the week. But the area of high-pressure looks to only move as far east as SW LA. This would keep our area in a northwest flow aloft with areas of showers/t-storms moving into the area from the NW for the weekend. Basically, we will still be getting moderate to higher than normal precip numbers, they will just change where they come from.

But downburst numbers do begin to rise by the end of the week. If this is capable of occurring, there would be a severe potential for heavy rainfall. But as was mentioned above, these numbers are likely to change that far out. With numbers already at or above 2″ there will be a chance of isolated flooding of poor drainage and low lying areas when thunderstorms can remain or train over any particular area.