Fans of Sunny, Balmy Weather Get Good News From Forecast

If you liked Southern California’s sunny weather the last couple of days, chances are you’re going to enjoy the rest of this weekend, too.

Forecasters said it might be a degree or two warmer in the afternoons and maybe just a bit cloudier along the coast during the mornings--but by and large, conditions seemed right for the kind of weekend that makes some people want to move here and keeps residents from moving away.

“I can’t see a single major problem in the upper atmosphere pattern over the Southland just now,” said Cary Schudy, a meteorologist and spokesman for Earth Environment Service, a private forecasting firm based in San Francisco.

“The only disturbance is a deep low in the Gulf of Alaska--and that will have no effect whatever. The weekend should be just about optimum for the season. . . .”

Beach temperatures were expected to hit the high 60s and low 70s both afternoons, with surf running two to four feet in most places, ocean temperature about five degrees cooler than the air and a 15-m.p.h. sea breeze beginning five or six hours before sunset.

Skies should be generally fair in the deserts, with temperatures to the mid-80s in the northern regions and to the mid-90s in the south.

Southland mountain resorts were expecting sunny afternoons with temperatures to the mid-60s after fog and low clouds in the night and early morning. Forecasters said there was a chance of rain today in the northern Sierra, with the snow level at 7,000 feet