Cool Down Continues in Southland But Rain 'Not Going to Happen'

LOS ANGELES, CA - The threat of showers Friday has largely dissipated, the National Weather Service said Thursday.

"It's not going to happen," NWS meteorologist Curt Kaplan said in a telephone interview from his monitoring station in Oxnard early this morning, adding that the precipitation that had been expected -- part of a system out of the Pacific Northwest -- would remain north of Point Conception in Santa Barbara County.

But there could be some drizzle in the Greater L.A. area Friday morning and again Saturday morning as a result of a deepening marine layer, which will also help return temperatures to roughly normal levels for this time of the year, he said.

Temperatures will continue to come down Thursday, though they will remain in the 80s in inland areas of Los Angeles County. But they are expected to be sharply lower Friday -- more than 10 degrees lower in some communities -- before rising slightly Saturday, according to an NWS forecast.

The NWS forecast sunny skies Thursday and highs of 71 in Avalon, San Clemente and Newport Beach; 72 at LAX and in Laguna Beach; 75 on Mount Wilson; 77 in Long Beach; 77 in Mission Viejo; 78 in Irvine; 79 in downtown L.A.; 81 in Anaheim, Burbank and San Gabriel; 83 in Pasadena and Saugus; 84 in Palmdale, Lancaster and Fullerton; 85 in Yorba Linda; and 86 in Woodland Hills.

Friday's forecast calls for sunny weather in Orange County and mostly cloudy skies -- no longer showers -- in Los Angeles County, with highs more than 10 degrees lower than Thursday in some areas.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock