A shifty weather pattern greeted Southern California on Monday, driving up temperatures that suddenly dipped, while the forecasted storms skirted by Los Angeles but will send heavy cloud cover over the Southland.
On Catalina Island, the morning temperature reached the high 80s but had dipped to the high 60s by noon. In Woodland Hills, the mercury reached 97 degrees about 9 a.m., but dropped to 87 degrees by 10 a.m.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service said the “fascinating” changes owed to a growing eddy that reversed the winds and thwarted another day of sweltering temperatures.
Showers and possibly thunderstorms had been forecast to arrive in parts of Los Angeles County late Monday, part of a tropical storm system near the coast of the Baja Peninsula.