Southland’s Holiday Weekend Likely to Be a Little Less Soppy
Southern California was hot and sticky Thursday, but the National Weather Service said the long Labor Day weekend will be a lot more comfortable. Mainly, the forecasters explained, it will be drier.
High temperature at Los Angeles Civic Center on Thursday was a warm, but endurable, 89 degrees.
If it seemed hotter, meteorologists explained that this was because the relative humidity ranged from a soppy 73% to a still-pretty-sloppy 32% during the day. But the weather service said that should begin to change today, when a thermal trough of low pressure now centered at Yuma will begin shifting gradually eastward. This will allow a drier air mass to move into the Southland.
Today’s Civic Center forecast called for a temperature in the upper 80s, with relative humidity dropping to the high teens. And even drier conditions are expected Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
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