Last week brought much-needed rain, but this week will turn dry, with crisp autumn nights and mornings followed by mild afternoons through Thanksgiving Day.

This November has been remarkable for the number of upper-level low-pressure systems affecting the region, including one cut-off low that was separated from the jet stream/storm track that produced copious amounts of rainfall in Southern California as it lingered over that region.

In fact, this month saw the greatest number of upper lows that created rain I’ve ever seen during my 34 years of forecasting along the Central Coast.

Because these systems lacked the typical gale-force southerly winds and well-defined cold fronts associated with surface lows, rainfall totals ended up higher than usual in the eastern and southern portions o

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