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CENTRAL COAST, Calif- It was supposed to be the mother of all heat-waves with 90 degrees on the coast, 100's possible in Santa Cruz and even 110's possible in far Southern Monterey County. One look out side tells you its not going to get that hot.
So what happened to the heat wave that everyone was warning about? For answers we turned to Central Coast News Chief Meteorologist Norm Hoffmann and Mark Strobin from the National Weather Service in Monterey.
" I can't recall it happening. I've been here seven years and we haven't had a miss like this since I've been here," said Strobin.
Just this past Sunday the National Weather Service was preparing for a historic week. The expectations were for quite a bit of warm weather even along the coast. They issued a heat-outlook earlier towards the end of last week, and over the weekend they had a heat advisory.
According to Stobin here is what went wrong, " While the forecast models sent a strong high pressure area to our North, they failed to notice something small scale developing by our coast."
The models never depicted the low coming off of the coast and Srobin says that held all the marbles.
The weather models that he is referring to are some of the most sophisticated pieces of technology that their is but Norm Hoffman say even with all of that technology weather is not an exact science.
"I've been in the busIness for 40 years and we all know that the science has changed and significantly improved with computers and our capability here at KION and KCBA but with the changes also comes the fact that we don't know everything about what's going on in the atmosphere," said Norm Hoffman.
