The bad weather will begin with a weak system on Monday that will give way to a much larger storm Tuesday that's drawing extra moisture from the sub-tropics, which will increase projected rainfall.
The spring equinox will occur on Monday. But it will feel like mid-winter across San Diego County. A weak storm will deliver light rain ahead of a bigger system that will push ashore Tuesday with heavy precipitation, moderate snow, biting cold, and fierce winds from the desert to the sea, the National Weather Service said.
The coast and inland valleys are projected to receive 1.5 to 3.0 inches of rain from early Tuesday to early Thursday and 4 to 5 inches at Palomar Mountain, which has recorded 49.77 inches of precipitation since the rainy season began on October 1. That’s 19.36 inches above average.The heavy rain is worrisome to public works crews. The landscape is saturated from a seemingly endless string of Pacific storms, many of them beefed up by moisture from the sub-tropics.
The incoming winds also have people on edge. The weather service said in an advisory that the system could “translate to a very strong wind event that we only see once every few years. The strongest winds will be ahead of and with the cold frontal passage on Tuesday.”
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