The system will provide relief but won't bust the drought
A late season Pacific storm will arrive in San Diego County early Monday and drop 1 to 2 inches of rain on parts of the region by the time it moves off to the east on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service also says the system will produce strong winds in the mountains and possibly lightning from the foothills to the sea. The storm will first hit northwest San Diego County, where it will drop from 1 inch to 1.5 inches of rain in such places as Oceanside and Escondido. Palomar Mountain could get as much as 2 inches of precipitation, but no snow.
The system will slide to the southeast and generate 0.70 inches to 1 inch of rain in San Diego and up to 1.5 inches in Alpine and El Cajon.The storm, which originated in the North Pacific, will draw a little bit of moisture from the sub-tropics. But the resulting “atmospheric river” will not super-charge the storm. And the system will lose much of its power by the time it curls into the southern Sierra Nevada, which means that the state’s major reservoirs will not greatly benefit.
“The story will provide relief here but will not bust the drought,” said Brian Adams, a weather service forecaster.
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