{"id":1033846,"date":"2026-08-30T23:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033846\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:15:16","slug":"southern-california-weather-cooler-temps-rain-forecast-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033846\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California weather: Cooler temps, rain forecast this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Angelenos, take heart: After a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-08-26\/southern-california-heat-wave-peaks-how-hot-will-it-get-when-will-it-end\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wretched stretch of heat and humidity<\/a>, temperatures for the coming week are forecast at or below normal for this time of year, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures are expected to drop slightly below average by Monday, a trend that should continue throughout the week, said Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist in the National Weather Service\u2019s Oxnard office. <\/p>\n<p>Although coastal areas will continue to feel some lingering humidity as a result of warm water temperatures, moisture levels in most of the area will be considerably lower than they were this past week, when <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-08-28\/forget-florida-la-humidity-is-off-charts-this-summer-whats-going-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the remnants of Tropical Storm Iselle<\/a> drove humidity up across the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, it should be a lot better than last week in terms of how it feels outside. More like California than Miami,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>To cap off a summer of <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-08-24\/why-this-summers-socal-heat-waves-feel-so-bad-hotter-nights-broiling-beaches\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unusual heat and humidity<\/a>, there is a possibility of rain over Labor Day weekend thanks to an unnamed tropical system developing off of Mexico, Lewis said. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a high degree of uncertainty around the chance of rainfall, but the system is likely to bring higher surf and stronger rip currents over the holiday weekend, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is warning of <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ362&amp;warncounty=CAC037&amp;firewxzone=CAZ362&amp;local_place1=Santa%20Monica%20CA&amp;product1=Beach+Hazards+Statement&amp;lat=34.0383&amp;lon=-118.502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hazardous conditions<\/a> at beaches in Ventura County, Los Angeles County and the Malibu coast through Monday afternoon, with dangerous rip currents and waves up to 6 feet expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angelenos, take heart: After a wretched stretch of heat and humidity, temperatures for the coming week are forecast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[82664,1582,276,29244,33074,2096,106177,7126,2961,413758,224,2444,5337,9548,6231,6773,15475,33077,413759,2452],"class_list":["post-1033846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bryan-lewis","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-chance","tag-coastal-area","tag-heat","tag-holiday-weekend","tag-humidity","tag-la","tag-labor-day-weekend-thank","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-monday","tag-national-weather-service","tag-rain","tag-temperature","tag-ventura-county","tag-warm-water-temperature","tag-week"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117187007706733553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}