Having trouble falling asleep? You\u2019ve got company. Distinct changes in San Diego County\u2019s seasonal weather are making it hard to catch some Zzzs. And things won\u2019t get better before Sunday, says the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n
The main culprit is the sultry monsoonal air that\u2019s been flowing up and along the county\u2019s coastline from the south-southeast. It has been present much of the summer, but has been especially oppressive over the past week or so.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe humid air reduces the effect that sweating has on cooling your body,\u201d said Chandler Price, a weather service forecaster. \u201cYour skin feels hot. It\u2019s gross.\u201d<\/p>\n
The effect is being enhanced by the unusually warm sea water that\u2019s been present in Southern California for months.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is contributing to the humidity and is doing so near the surface,\u201d said Sasha Gershunov, a research meteorologist at UC San Diego\u2019s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis keeps night-time temperatures warmer than normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
At times, the overnight temperatures have been in the mid-70s, which is a particular problem for people who do not have air conditioning.<\/p>\n
The region\u2019s daytime temperatures also have been noteworthy. San Diego\u2019s daily high has been above average every day since July 10, the weather service says.<\/p>\n
The humid weather is expected to grow worse this week, reaching the mid-80s at some local beaches, the low-to-mid-90s a couple of miles inland, and 95 or above in the foothills, valleys and deserts. Borrego Springs could hit 115 degrees.<\/p>\n
The heat wave will peak on Thursday and Friday. Significantly cooler, drier air will arrive on Sunday, providing at least temporary relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having trouble falling asleep? You\u2019ve got company. Distinct changes in San Diego County\u2019s seasonal weather are making it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,23,100,74,76,75,645,1696,19],"class_list":["post-443511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories-sdut","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}