Ben's WX Summary Looking at a cool and windy start to the week as an offshore flow generates gusty Santa Ana winds below passes and canyons with good cold air advection knocking highs into the 30s today. Expect mostly sunny skies today with highs in the upper 30s to around 40 degrees, northeast winds 10-20 mph with gusts near 50 mph possible through passes & canyons. Clear and cold tonight as lows drop into the upper teens and lower 20s. Increasing high clouds and a little warmer tomorrow as the offshore flow decreases. Temperatures will make it back into the 40s with east-northeast winds 5-15 mph. A new Pacific storm will approach the area from the southwest on Tuesday night, bringing increasing clouds and winds, with south-southwest winds gusting to 40 mph and showers developing. Unfortunately, we'll be dealing with a warmer, subtropical low coming up from the southwest with warmer moisture and high snow levels once again. The snow level will remain up around 9,000 feet with showers and isolated thunderstorms likely on Wednesday and Thursday. Showers may persist Friday into the early part of the weekend as the snow level tries to lower to around 6,500 feet. Overall, expect a couple inches of rain with the potential for a couple inches of snow on the tail end of the storm, but this looks to be another rainmaker for us. If you have travel plans into the mountains this week, be prepared as weather conditions can still change rapidly, and always carry tire chains.