San Diego County’s long stretch of unseasonably warm, dry weather will last until Friday, when a modest storm is expected to begin dropping about a quarter-inch of precipitation in many areas, possibly triggering lightning on Saturday, the National Weather Service says.
The daytime high at San Diego International Airport is forecast to reach 73 on Tuesday, 75 on Wednesday, 73 on Thursday, 72 on Friday and 68 on Saturday. The seasonal average is 68.
Forecasters say the storm is likely to produce a little rain on Friday and intensify overnight before it moves off to the east late Saturday night and early Sunday. The system could make the field wet at Petco Park on Friday evening, where the Padres host the Colorado Rockies.
Skies will also be wet and gray far off the coast of San Diego at 5:07 p.m. Friday, when the crew of the Artemis II space mission is scheduled to parachute into the ocean in their tiny space capsule.
San Diego has not received substantial rain since Feb. 19. The lack of precipitation has allowed chaparral to turn much drier, including along the coast, where the marine layer has often been very weak in recent weeks.