It’s raining, it’s pouring and the atmospheric river responsible for this winter storm will continue to deliver the much-needed rain through the majority of our Thursday.
Gusty winds, high surf and potentially damaging rainfall are in store for San Diego County as a storm from our north makes its way to our region. Per NBC 7 Weathercaster Brooke Martell’s forecast, here’s a timeline of when we can anticipate the inclement weather:
San Diego Weather
- Early morning – North County was the first to get the tail-end of the storm that caused major damage and even one death in Northern California.
- 5:30 a.m. – By this time, rain was already widespread over San Diego County.
- 9 a.m. – It was wet morning commute with the rain still widespread for much of the region, though a bit sporadic for the South Bay and North County.
- 11:30 a.m. – The rain has become more sporadic throughout the region, but will remain prominent in central coastal communities, the mountains and deserts.
- “By about noon, we’ll start to look to be a little bit more patchy with this system, but we still have those heavier rainfall amounts over mountains like Julian and in Pine Valley,” Martell said.
- 3 p.m. – The rain will be less pronounced, but East County will continue with the inclement weather.
- “As we go into this evening, this system will really start to dissipate,” Martell said.
- 6:30 p.m. – Random bands of showers will pass through potentially for San Diego city and Escondido.
- 8 p.m. – Winds will die down at the coast as Imperial Beach, Fallbrook and Encinitas will continue to get some spotty showers.
- Midnight – All activity will seem to have stopped by this time, with some few showers maybe passing by.
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“Looking ahead to tomorrow, mostly sunny skies,” Martell said.
You can keep up with the storm, yourself, with our First Alert Forecast radar:
