Anyone who was around here last winter knows that the song got it wrong: It does rain in Southern California. Not only does it rain, but it also can rain in the summer.
That rain is usually courtesy of the weather pattern known as the North American monsoon, and generally falls in the mountains and deserts. Occasionally, a shower or thunderstorm will peel off the mountains and drift into the Los Angeles Basin, or sometimes make it all the way to the beaches. There may be downpours in the inland mountains and deserts, and dry lightning is a potential hazard in the higher elevations, but rainfall amounts are usually puny near the coast.
It is dry and sinks in the atmosphere. As it sinks, it heats up — and the stronger the high pressure, the more it produces heat.During the summer months, the high pressure shifts northward and expands dramatically, bringing seasonal heat to the Southwest deserts and parts of Southern California.Circulation around the high pressure pulls subtropical or monsoonal moisture up from the Gulf of California and the Gulf of Mexico, increasing humidity in the Southwest.
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