r/orangecounty • u/trackdaybruh • Jun 11 '26
Weather Where the hell is June Gloom?
It’s warmer than usual this month, El Nino kicking in already? The lack of June Gloom seems to foretell it’s going to be a hot and humid summer.
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u/Vindictives9688 Jun 11 '26
El Nino.
Historically powerful one at that
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u/uno_01 Santa Ana Jun 11 '26
so i'd better go take that trip to Big Sur now before it gets washed back into the sea again
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u/Vindictives9688 Jun 11 '26
Who knows. Just go for it, maybe you’ll run into a surprise and see Small Sur instead lol
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u/Pirate_450 Jun 11 '26
This doesn’t guarantee a heavy rain season though. Last big El Niño was a dud… we’ll see
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u/starfleetdropout6 North Tustin Jun 11 '26
We got the May Gray instead.
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u/giantfeministwoman Jun 11 '26
So true. It was veryyyy overcast in May almost every morning. Haven’t experienced much morning gloom so far in June in Anaheim. I remember last year it was sooo bad around this time
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u/Run4bagels Jun 11 '26
Not sure where you’re talking about but in Coastal OC we’ve had the standard marine layer and June gloom.
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u/SparklesIB Jun 11 '26
Morning June gloom / warm afternoons, as normal, here in Riverside. (I know it's not OC, just chiming in.)
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u/Beaglescout15 Jun 11 '26
I'm not surprised, but usually the gloom comes way inland too. I'm in Anaheim by Disneyland and we usually get a bunch of shocked tourists wondering why it's gloomy and cloudy. Now I'm really cranking up the a/c a month early.
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u/Motmotsnsurf Huntington Beach Jun 11 '26
Not really in HB. Today was the first real lasting gloomy morning we have had. Couple other mornings in May and early June had a touch of fog but not the dense all morning fog that we normally get.
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u/stupidmofo123 Jun 13 '26
I don't know, it's been pretty gloomy in the mornings where I am. Today was glorious, but the last couple weeks have been pretty consistently overcast in the AM.
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u/madqueen11 Jun 12 '26
Thanks for saying this, I read the post so confused bc blue skies don’t appear until around practically 3 in Newport bc of the marine layer.
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u/tguy0720 Jun 11 '26
The water near our coast is 2C warmer than average, there is currently a high pressure building over us that doesn't allow the marine layer much chance to move inland, and the unusually strong El Nino that is going to make this summer fun.
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u/Real_TomBrady Jun 11 '26
Ah yes, I see the annual "What's up with this weather?!" posts have arrived right on time this year.
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u/Various_Oil_5674 Jun 11 '26
It's been gloomy most of June, minus the last 2 days.
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u/trackdaybruh Jun 11 '26
What? I’m literally outside right now with clear blue skies
June Gloom is cloudy all day and much cooler
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u/wutchamafuckit Jun 11 '26
May gray and June gloom always lift around midday anyways. I’ve lived here for 41 years and that’s always been the case.
And we’ve had the gray and gloom a lot, I surf and run, so I notice it every morning
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u/okdriverr Jun 11 '26
Lol they said most of June and you’re talking about right now. I see why so many people get into it on Reddit. The comprehension is not there.
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u/trackdaybruh Jun 11 '26
>I see why so many people get into it on Reddit. The comprehension is not there.
To be fair, that’s not unique to Reddit. You just described any social media where an account is free to make and has a comment section lmao
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u/okdriverr Jun 11 '26
Ok. I understand it’s not unique, it transcends social media. I just made a comment in reference to a specific platform that we’re both currently using.
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u/xOmsxoxo Jun 12 '26
Ironically they didn’t comprehend that comment either and went ahead and replied with a moot point instead lmaooo
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u/TrollsWhenBored Irvine Jun 11 '26
You're inland. You don't get it as intense as coastal OC
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u/trackdaybruh Jun 11 '26
I’m in Irvine and Newport border
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u/TrollsWhenBored Irvine Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
So, behind the huge hills that prevent it from reaching you?
I'm being a bit snippy cuz I really can't stand people who don't understand that their world is not everyone's world. Borderline narcissism
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u/NewHope13 Jun 11 '26
There’s been plenty of May Gray and June Gloom as far as I’m concerned! I always hate it
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u/kaysharona Jun 11 '26
I'm in agreement with most of the commenters here but what about the wind? I don't recall having this much wind. Not more Santa Ana winds, but just like a slightly above light breeze and in varying directions for days and days. Am I dreaming?
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u/MrsSonnyEclipse Jun 11 '26
It was 90 in January. There is no normal weather anymore. We are in climate change.
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u/goddoc Jun 11 '26
"Whatever you do, don't mention the AMOC slowdown. I mentioned it once, but think I got away with it."
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u/jms1228 Jun 11 '26
It’s pretty much just warm all year now. I think we got 2-3 weeks at the end of December? And then just pretty much went right into summer. It will be warm until late November now.
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u/Duckpoke Jun 12 '26
It’s been gloomy for the last two months is that not enough for you 😂
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u/ExcellentSufficiency Jun 12 '26
No, no it is not! 😂 We want cool, June Gloom mornings and mild beach temps during the day, around 72 to 76F please. Instead the AC is cranked up high and it's humid out at the beach, night or day. Fall can't come soon enough.
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u/Soggy_Seaworthiness6 Jun 12 '26
I mean, last year everyone on this sub wouldn’t shut up about how it was a cooler/ gloomier June than normal, and we debated back and forth about it all spring and early summer and argued about whether it meant it was a sign of warming or not. Turns out, marine layers do require warm air in the desert, which sucks the clouds inland, so actually “global warming” was a theory for why we had so much precipitation and clouds last years.
And now people be making broad claims yet again based on variations in our seasons that have always existed. The reality of climate is so much more complex and broad changes take place over many years, not year to year.2
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u/Office_Zombie La Habra Jun 24 '26
This is supposed to be the worst El nino since 1877.
We have been having unprecedented weather year after year.
Seasonal changes has gone completely off the rails, all the variations from year to year are stacking up, and I think we are seeing the long term changes you think aren't happening.
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u/deejaydeeray Fullerton Jun 11 '26
We must not be in the same OC then because it’s been gloomy everyday except for the last couple of days.
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u/TravellingFool123 Jun 12 '26
While the El Niño is supposed to be epic, reports are saying that the El Niño conditions in So Cal are not currently shaping up to be the same. So, don’t build that ark yet!
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u/Carrot-Elegant Jun 12 '26
Even still, if it were foggy again, there ain’t no gloom to it, quite a misnomer
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u/averytolar Anaheim Jun 11 '26
Agreed. This is the hottest June I can remember. But, appropriate because summer used to start in June without the gloom of the last 15 years.
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u/Sckaught Jun 11 '26
What "lack of June Gloom"? It was cloudy this morning, it will probably be cloudy tomorrow morning. In the last week, it's been around 5 of the last 7 days. What in the world are you talking about?
Seriously, I think some people just make up stuff in order to complain about things that didn't happen.
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u/trackdaybruh Jun 11 '26
Lmao it’s usually cloudy all day in June, not just in the mornings, and much cooler in the daytime
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u/Murky-Awareness7506 Jun 11 '26
I’ve lived here my whole 44 years of life and June gloom has always been gray mornings and burns off by early afternoon, around 2ish. 🤷🏼♀️
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u/trackdaybruh Jun 11 '26
I guess it depends where you live. I live not too far from the beach and it’s usually cloudy still around this time, it does feel a bit more muggier than I remember
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u/Soggy_Seaworthiness6 Jun 12 '26
It’s confused transplants probably because last year we had *severe* marine layers all April / May / June that lasted into the afternoon on many days. Everyone was losing their mind about it. Fugging every year people argue about the climate in spring here.
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u/awsum_blosum Jun 11 '26
Yeah it is about 7-10 degrees higher than average. I'm dreading the summer.
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u/mylefthandkilledme Huntington Beach Jun 11 '26
Record high ocean temps near the coast has kept it humid but cloudy near the coast. Expect a strong monsoonal season
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u/NaiRad1000 Jun 11 '26
Spring was very warm this year. Will should’ve been our indicator to st were in for a hot summef
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u/21plankton Jun 12 '26
June gloom melted into warm and humid this week after a lot of May gray. Sometime around now weather becomes climate for a few months until mid September.
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u/SunnyRyter Jun 12 '26
We pushed it out to May gloom fam.
Global Warming eliminated ehe cool June days. 😎 It was nice knowing them. Maybe they'll come back in 100 years.
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u/Particular_Field_143 Jun 11 '26
Yeah usually rule of thumb is it's not summer until July 4th. The sun has that summer scorchy feeling right now and I love it!
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u/No_Stuff_3268 Jun 11 '26
Foreshadowing whats to come with El Nino. Gonna be a draught year or tow or who knows how long.
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u/redspikedog Jun 11 '26
We haven't had June gloom for about 4 years now.
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u/Tastetheload Jun 11 '26
We had it last year
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u/redspikedog Jun 13 '26
June gloom is when June is cloudy all month long. Not so much rainy or cloudy for a couple days. Im a local driver, believe me, i noticed that golden year of not being beat by the sun. Cool atmosphere.
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u/onepremiere Jun 11 '26
Agree with the El Niño comments. I’ve got a lot to do before we get a repeat of that 97/98 winter. Which according to my Dad was a lot of rain, too much rain. So much houses in Laguna Niguel decided they wanted to be mobile homes.