Monday 26 June 2017 Clearer skies will prevail today over much of the peninsula and temps will continue war with a cooling trend beginning tomorrow in the north and cooling things even a few degrees in the south late in the week.

In Baja California: The border Pacific region will have two more days of summer like temps in the low to mid 80's then cool down to spring levels with temps bottoming out on Thursday near 73°F/22°C. In the high deserts look for scorching temps close to 117°F/46°C today with a cooling trend beginning tomorrow, bottoming out Thursday with a brisk 107°F/41°C. Along the northern Sea of Cortez look for clear skies through the forecast period and temps just over 100°F/37°C through Monday, cooling to 93°F/32°C on Friday. 

In Baja California Sur: The northern Pacific coastal areas will see clear skies through the forecast period with temps near 100°F/37°C today and cooling beginning Wednesday to bottom out on Saturday around 89°F/32°C. In La Paz we have sunny skies this morning with a high of 91°F/32°C expected today. Tuesday will warm slightly with temps returning to the upper 80's later in the week. In Los Cabos look for temps in the low to mid 90's through the week with partly to mostly cloudy skies Tuesday and Wednesday with the spin-off from Tropical Cyclone Dora as it passes about 350 miles to the south.

Tropical Watch: We have Category 1 Dora, the first hurricane of 2017 about 170 miles SSW of Manzanillo on the mainland of Mexico. Dora just may make it to become a Category 2 Hurricane later this morning, before entering cooler waters and less conducive conditions and slowly deteriorating over the next 4 days. Dora is then forecast to bank to the west-northwest and maintain hurricane strength through early Wednesday when cooler waters will again reduce the system to a tropical storm and later a tropical depression well to the southwest of the Baja peninsula. Dora should move well enough to the south of the peninsula to just bring partly to mostly cloudy skies to the southern most portions on Tuesday and Wednesday. Increased surf along south facing beaches at the tip of the peninsula could produce large surf and a strong undertow at some of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo popular beaches Monday through Thursday. 

Our SST graphic for the Eastern Pacific is updated each Monday.

– Tomas