High pressure remains the main weather driver for the rest of the work week, keeping things generally quiet but also warm and dry — not great for the ongoing drought. Temperatures Wednesday will take another jump into the mid-80s across the area away from the locally cooler coastline with plenty of sunshine after some patches of morning fog. A disturbance aloft will cause an uptick in cloud cover for Thursday and keep temperatures close to Wednesday’s values, but it’ll still be plenty warm and well above normal for this point in the year.

The warmest period begins Friday and lasts until Saturday, in which high pressure anchored to our south drives more westerly wind trajectories at the surface and aloft. This will send temperatures to near record levels Friday, with highs in the low 90s a distinct possibility under mostly sunny skies.