It’s not even April yet, but Angelenos may be experiencing early May grey and June darkness over the next few days.
Forecasters predict sub-average large temperatures with potential for precipitation.
“We’re not a fan of the world,” said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “We’ll probably be cooler than usual until next week, so use that.”
Temperatures are expected to remain below normal degrees in the 60s for next week or so. The average for this period is around 71 degrees in downtown Los Angeles, Wofford said. Friday’s high was expected to reach 66 degrees before falling over the weekend.
“We run somewhere around 3-8 degrees, which is normal, and it stays like that or cools a little,” Wofford says.
A series of storms from the Pacific Northwest have driven this cool, cloudy, wet pattern, with the first storm likely to draw precipitation to Southland by Sunday.
But it’s only supposed to bring up to a tenth of an inch of light rain in some areas, Wofford said. And despite the opportunity for more storms than next week, he said it’s unlikely that the week’s total would exceed half an inch.
However, as forecasts are still a little uncertain, weather services modelling does not rule out some heavy rain possibilities completely.
It may rain next week. The first period (Sun-Mon) brings rain of light and minimal impact. There is a lot of uncertainty in the next period (TUE Night-Fri). Key Takeout: This cannot be ruled out completely, but at this point heavy rain is very unlikely. #cawx #larain pic.twitter.com/d0lrw8nyhy
– NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLOSANGELES) March 27, 2025
Rainfall is a particularly boring start to April, according to US drought monitors, but changes in weather could bring some degree of mitigation to Southern California’s arid landscape.
