Weather Blogging

This is a La Nina year, which bodes dry weather for the Southwest. Apparently San Diego is not in the Southwest. Who knew?

The last two years we have averaged 3" of rain per year, compared to our normal rainfall of 11" per year. During the summer the La Nina developed, cold surface temperatures in the Pacific, and it has persisted so we have been hearing predictions of another dry winter. Not so much. We've had several very wet storms and are actually ahead of normal rainfall for the year for the first time in several years.

Weather pundits said, "Oh those storms were mere anamolies. Don't worry about it, it will go back to being dry."

The current forecast? Well, it's raining now and the forecast is that it will continue to do so for the next four days. When is the last time it was rainy for five days continuously in San Diego? Nobody remembers.
Here's the forecast for the jetstream for Thursday. It is, in case you don't notice, bringing moisture from well south of Hawaii directly over San Diego.
I love weather pundits.