Weather to Dry Out, Warm Up, Forecasters Say

You know June gloom is extra gloomy when a particularly thick marine layer does its best rain impression.

Umbrellas and windshield wipers got a workout Thursday morning as rain fell in Thousand Oaks, Ojai, Ventura, Camarillo and elsewhere. It wasn’t much--Oxnard recorded 0.01 of an inch, said John Sherwin, a meteorologist with WeatherData Inc., which provides forecasts to The Times.

“It was a real hard drizzle, if that makes any sense,” he said. “What you had basically was a marine layer--a real deep marine layer--and an upper-level disturbance over Northern California that acted to wring it out.”

But aside from fog Saturday morning, no more traces of moisture are expected, Sherwin said.

“It looks like it’s going to dry out and warm up by Sunday,” he said.

The low-pressure trough that has brought cool temperatures to the West Coast for the last month is expected to finally move east and allow high pressure--and warm temperatures--to build, Sherwin said.

The result Saturday will be partly cloudy skies with temperatures inching toward the lower 70s inland. By Sunday, interior valleys could see temperatures in the upper 80s, providing the county with the warmest weather since a three-day April heat wave.