COOLING IT; FOG, CLOUDS, DRIZZLE MAY BE PRECURSOR OF AWAITED RAIN.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer January gloom arrived Monday with a mix of low clouds, fog and scattered morning drizzle that is expected to linger in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. through the week. And by this weekend, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. could get much-needed rain, forecasters said. The season-to-date total at the Los Angeles Civic Center is just 1.87 inches, compared with 6.4 inches on the average year during the same period. There are about 10 weeks left in the rainy season. ``We're very dry now. I don't think we've had any real rain since the middle of December,'' said National Weather Service meteorologist Bruce Rockwell. That could change soon because computerized weather models show a storm packing a half inch or more of rain moving into the area by Friday night at the earliest, Hannon said. The dense cloud layer could lessen somewhat Thursday and Friday, allowing partly cloudy Partly Cloudy is an industrial band based in Hollywood, California. Band members
``Most of the week it's going to be cooler with fog and temperatures in the 40s to mid-50s at night and around 60 during the day,'' Rockwell said. The gray skies ended Southern California's monthlong flirtation with shorts-and-T-shirts weather, brought by the global weather phenomenon La Nina La Niña n. A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America, occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns. . The high pressure that steered storms away from the Southland since mid-December has now given way to a more seasonable Within a reasonable time; timely. The term seasonable is usually used in connection with the performance of contractual obligations that must be completed "seasonably." The facts and circumstances of each case define a reasonable period of time. marine layer of cool Pacific moisture. ``There was a big ridge (of high pressure) over the Western states that kept things almost perfect, unless you're concerned about the water table,'' said meteorologist Laura Hannon of AccuWeather Inc. ``Now we'll see more clouds than anything else over the next couple of days.'' Poor weather at Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites. , near Lompoc, forced a delay in the launch of a Boeing Delta II This article is about the rocket. For the submarine see Delta class submarine. Delta II is a space launch system originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas, then later built by Integrated Defense Systems division of Boeing. rocket set to carry two satellites. The launch was rescheduled to Wednesday. CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO Gerard Burhart of North Hollywood walks down a path at Brand Park in Glendale, which was shrouded in thick fog Monday morning. David Crane/Daily News |
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