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California Sees High Temperatures, Humidity
Aired July 11, 2002 - 11:17 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I want to bring in a former colleague of mine and a friend, Willa Sandmeyer. She works for KTLA in Southern California. She is where -- you should be at the beach, but, Willa, it looks like the fog might have finally come in.
WILLA SANDMEYER, KTLA CORRESPONDENT: That's right. We actually have some coastal fog, and Daryn, it is good to be talking with you directly on the air again.
We're down here at the coast, and this is where some people may be seeking relief from the heat that has just been baking Southern California for the past several days. Triple-digit temperatures, I heard Orelon mentioning a high of 108 in Las Vegas. How about a high of 113 in Palmdale, that is just north of Los Angeles, a desert suburban community.
But here at the coast, we do have in the summer a weather pattern that occasionally will happen where we have coastal fog. It just kind of hugs the coast for quite a while, keeps things quite a bit cooler. So highs in this area around 70 degrees.
And as I mentioned, this is where some people may be coming today to try to escape from the heat. Just a few miles inland, Daryn, it's much, much hotter.
KAGAN: Yes, and that must be welcome relief to see the fog there, Willa, along the coast. Let's bring Orelon back in -- Orelon, it took a little bit of time there for the fog to kind of move in along the coast. I guess there was a high pressure system, to use a little bit of your lingo, keeping that off.
ORELON SIDNEY, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: Well, there is a big high pressure ridge. What probably happened there -- you got to remember, it is like 8:00 in the morning out there. So it is not really that unusual to get a little coastal fog. Remember that the water is really cold out here. So when you get that cold -- that warm air, the cold air actually move inland, and what you are going to get is it condenses very quickly.
And that's where you get the fog from. Usually, about this time of morning, should break down by a little bit later this afternoon. I give it three hours or so, it will start to break up a bit. But, the problem is you are going to be so humid across this area for Los Angeles, that temperature at 84 degrees this afternoon, that it is going to feel like you're up close to 90 degrees. And of course, if you head just inland, places like Palmdale, that you mentioned, Twentynine Palms, those temperature will already be in the hundreds later today. And if you look at the current temperature, look how cool it is at Los Angeles, 66 degrees. So that explains some of the fog situation there -- ain't going to last, though, and it is going to be hot for the next several days.
KAGAN: Fog is going away, humidity is coming in. Just write it off to a bad hair day in L.A.
SIDNEY: Better believe it. Because you think about it, the dew point is 66 degrees right now, that's like Atlanta sticky, so...
KAGAN: That's frizzy.
SIDNEY: Yes.
KAGAN: All right. Want to say thanks to Willa, want to say thank you to Willa as well. Willa Sandmeyer, KTLA. We used to work together back in our Santa Barbara days, we know all about heat and fog...
SANDMEYER: That's right.
KAGAN: ...and all that kind of stuff.
SANDMEYER: But you know, the humidity that Orelon was mentioning, I'm telling you, we're not used to that out here. You know, regularly our humidity may only in the 20's, and when we get down with those really dry, hot conditions it might be in the teens. This morning, Daryn, our humidity was at 87 percent.
KAGAN: Wow.
SANDMEYER: So we feel like we are just wilting out here. It is something that you're much more accustomed to there on the East Coast. But that's really a major contributing factor, as Orelon was mentioning, in making the temperatures that we are having feel even hotter.
KAGAN: Well, we will send cool thoughts your way. And we will try to think of a dry heat for you, Willa. Thanks for stopping by, and try to stay cool today.
SANDMEYER: Thank you.
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