A cold, driving storm drenched San Diego County overnight, making creeks swell and briefly causing minor street flooding in many areas. But the finale of three days of on-and-off precipitation did little to lift the region’s anemic seasonal rainfall totals. And the county will now begin at least a week of dry weather.
“February is historically the wettest month, then its usually downhill from there,” Chandler Price, a National Weather Service forecaster, said early Friday. “There have been years when we’ve caught up a lot in March and April. But we don’t know if that will happen this year.”
Through early Friday morning, San Diego International Airport had recorded 1.27 inches of precipitation since the rainy season began on October 1. That’s 4.58 inches below normal. The airport averages about 9.79 inches from October 1 to September 30.
Rainfall totals also are way off across inland areas. Ramona’s seasonal precipitation now stands at 2.90 inches, which is 5.48 inches below normal. The rain that the county has gotten recently has caused some fresh vegetation to sprout in the back country, easing the wildfire danger. But the landscape could soon start to whither if more rain doesn’t arrive soon.
Here is a sample of rainfall totals for the three day period that ended at 6:19 a.m. on Friday.
Palomar Mountain: 7.11 inches
Lake Cuyamaca: 5.05 inches
Henshaw Dam: 4.55 inches
Julian: 3.67 inches
Skyline Ranch: 3.64 inches
Lake Wohlford: 3.20 inches
Otay Mountain: 3.18 inches
Descanso: 3.06 inches
Fallbrook: 2.96 inches
Valley Center: 2.94 inches
Santa Ysabel: 2.88 inches
San Onofre: 2.71 inches
Escondido: 2.67 inches
Mount Laguna: 2.65 inches
Mt. Woodson: 2.53 inches
Camp Pendleton: 2.48 inches
Poway: 2.47 inches
Rancho Bernardo: 2.27 inches
San Diego Country Estates: 2.24 inches
Bonsall: 2.19 inches
Alpine: 2.15 inches
Barona: 1.97 inches
Ramona Airport: 1.93 inches
San Marcos: 1.97 inches
Santee: 1.88 inches
Campo: 1.86 inches
Warner Springs: 1.80 inches
Kearny Mesa: 1.76 inches
Oceanside: 1.71 inches
Carlsbad: 1.70 inches
Miramar: 1.61 inches
La Mesa: 1.56 inches
Montgomery Field; 1.37 inches
Vista: 1.23 inches
Ranchita: 1.29 inches
Tierra Del Sol: 1.07 inches
Fashion Valley: 1.03 inches
San Diego International Airport: 0.75 inches
Borrego Springs: 0.21 inches
Source: NWS
