Valleywide : High Pressure Ridge Means More Hot Days

It’s undeniably warm outside. And, according to forecasters, it’s going to stay that way.

So what did you expect? It’s the middle of summer.

“Things are looking about as normal as they can get right now,” said Curtis Brack, a meteorologist with WeatherData in Wichita, Kan., which supplies forecasts to The Times. “We basically have a ridge of high pressure over the West Coast that’s been there for several days. And it’s expected to stay parked there through this next week.”

That ridge, Brack said, actually extends from well out in the eastern Pacific Ocean into Utah and Arizona. “It’s keeping everything nice and dry,” he said, and as it strengthens a bit this week, it should raise temperatures a few degrees.

In the San Fernando Valley, Brack said, the forecast throughout the week is for highs from the upper 80s to mid-90s, lows from the upper 50s to mid-60s.

Van Nuys and Woodland Hills reached 92 degrees on Sunday while Burbank hit 86, Brack said. He added, “Temperatures will be just like that for the next several days. Things are very static. . . . For the next week or so, as far out as our little charts go, everything looks about the same.”