Ben, is this it? After all these countless 317 days since the last legitimate summer heat wave* will we finally get one?
No.
In fact, both the preceding and proceeding days may end up with below average highs.
So let’s get right to the explanation. This heat wave, if you can even call it that, isn’t really a heat wave. It’s more of what I like to call a “fake heat wave”. Most summer heat waves will be caused by some sort of high pressure system carrying hot air moving over us. For the longer ones, usually the high will be stuck in an omega block. For this heat wave though, it’s actually a low to the northwest pulling up warmth from the Pacific high, using its counter-clockwise winds. The low is moving fast, meaning the heat will be very short lived. We’ll see a high likely in the mid to high 20s, followed by some storms in the late afternoon and evening, leading to a near-average low once again.
After Thursday, it looks like we’ll enter back into a lot of the stuff we’ve been seeing recently: cold, clouds, and could be rain. Maybe we’ll call that the CCC.
*Two or more consecutive 30 degree days