A Pacific storm swirling off Canada is expected to stay far to the north, keeping San Diego dry at least until Sunday. The city is in the midst of its driest rainy season since 1850-51.
The National Weather Service says 1.27 inches of precipitation has fallen at San Diego International Airport since the rainy season began on October 1. That’s 4.84 inches below average. The only time it has been drier during that same period was in 2005-06.
Forecasters said the marine layer will thicken on Monday as a Catalina eddy churns counter-clockwise along the San Diego County coastline. But it won’t produce appreciable rain, and conditions are expected to be mostly dry countywide through Sunday.
February is usually the wettest month of the year in San Diego, averaging about 2.2 inches of rain. So far, it’s received 0.92 inches, which might remain relatively unchanged by the end of the month.
Conditions were starkly different a year ago. San Diego recorded 8.81 inches of rain from Oct. 1 to Feb. 16.
