Mostly Sunny Afternoons, Wintertime Fishing and Dredging Marina del Rey

Today is Nov. 16. It is the 320th day of the year. We are under a waning gibbous moon. Sunset will occur about 4:50 p.m. Here are five things to know:

1. The National Weather Service forecast for this afternoon calls for sunny skies with a high near 64 degrees with patchy fog after 10 p.m. and an overnight low around 50 degrees. Forecasters expect patchy fog Thursday morning that will gradually clear to mostly sunny with an afternoon high near 64 degrees.

2. The abundance of live squid for bait is making for some excellent wintertime surface fishing and a gray whale already has been spotted as they begin to make their annual trek to Mexico. Details right here.

3. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a plan to dredge the harbor in Marina del Rey and move clean sand to Redondo Beach and Dockweiler State Beach and dump contaminated sand at a fill site in the Port of Long Beach. Details right here.

4. Do you have an event coming up that you'd like to promote on Patch? If so, we have a video tutorial to help get your events on Marina del Rey Patch - for free. Details right here.

5. Patch is looking for bloggers. We recently rolled out a new blogging platform and are looking for local bloggers to write about whatever they want, whenever they want. If you're interested or want to learn more, send me an email: Paul.Chavez@patch.com.