SOUTHLAND - (INT) - Southern Californians have some ‘water cooler’ weather to talk about for the coming 5-days. The variables are rather apparent for the closing days of summer.

Intense low pressure over the Eastern Sierra and Nevada has generated at lot of mountain and desert wind and a dense marine layer brought a few hundredths of an inch of rain to Orange County early Tuesday.

On a bigger scale, it’s the sharply cooler weather that has everyone talking. Afternoons temperatures up to 25 degrees below normal Tuesday.

Wednesday touched off a return to summer as temperatures steadily climb becoming above normal by the weekend.

At the coast, increasing swells generated by Hurricane Orlene should subside at the beaches beginning Thursday.

Story Date: September 15, 2016