The National Weather Service has increased the Probability of Precipitation (POP) for the Coachella Valley to 50% on Saturday. .

After a pleasant, dry late week, the moisture quickly returned Sunday. Thunderstorm are forecasted for rest of the week for most of Southeastern California.  Currently the Coachella Valley, San Bernardino County Mountains, Riverside County Mountains, and San Diego County Mountains are all under a Flash Flood Watch until 7pm tonight. To add to the Monsoon [...]

Looking at the valley as a whole, you can see the “hit and miss” nature of these thunderstorms. The areas that got hit, got hit hard! Highway 111 was closed for hours due to flash flooding. Multiple business were inundated with flood waters from mountain runoff in Cathedral City. Estimated radar storm total: Some rain [...]

It was certainly drier today with dew point levels as much as 20° lower than the past few days. See the graph below for the past 2 weeks and you can see its been quite “sticky” up until today. This dryness won’t last.  A surge of moisture will return starting Saturday night thru Tuesday with [...]

Were approaching the mights of summer and as July rolls by, and August is just around the corner, we can expect higher humidity levels here in the valley. The valley floor saw Dew Point values on Sunday averaging in the 50′s! This is caused by the “Monsoonal flow”. With the Southwest Monsoon (which typically affects [...]