Humidity Eases for Dry Weekend

Dry, sun-splashed afternoons are expected to grace the San Diego area this weekend, but coastal clouds will probably continue to provide a layer of marine murkiness in the morning and evening.

“Good beach weather--during the afternoons,” said Frank O’Leary, forecaster for the National Weather Service in San Diego.

Morning clouds should be pushed offshore by noon, O’Leary said, probably keeping the day clear until sometime after 6 p.m.

Thanks to a dry southwest air flow, the weekend is expected to be largely free of the humidity that made some recent summer days uncharacteristically sultry, by San Diego-area standards.

Also unlikely is a repeat of the thunderstorms that dumped more than 2 inches of rain on some mountain zones last weekend.

Temperatures are expected to remain slightly below normal through the weekend. High temperatures along the coast should fall between 72-80 degrees, forecasters say, with cooling sea breezes of 8-15 m.p.h. Inland readings may approach 90 degrees, while desert temperatures could soar to 110.

Thursday’s high temperature at Lindbergh Field was a comfortable 75 degrees; the low was 65 degrees.

Elsewhere, high temperatures reached 84 in El Cajon, 77 at Brown Field, 78 at Del Mar and 102 in Borrego.