Rainy Weather Predicted for Rest of Year

The times will be changing, weather-wise, with an intermittent rainy pattern beginning today and lasting through New Year’s Day, Wilbur Shigehara, senior meteorologist for the National Weather Service in San Diego, predicted Thursday.

Rain showers late Thursday night will end this morning, giving way to clear but cold weather over the weekend. But another storm now off the Siberian coast promises more rain by early next week, and that pattern will last for much of the rest of the year, Shigehara said.

g “Lots of changes on the way,” he said, noting that winter officially arrives at 6:34 a.m. Monday, with only 600 minutes of potential sunshine even without interference from another storm.

“The weather charts do not predict heavy rain at this point “but the high pressure over (Utah) that has been protecting us from storms is going away and a huge low-pressure system over Canada will now direct them our way,” Shigehara said. “They’ll be coming in one after another and that is good.”

At this point, he sees a good chance for rain on Christmas Day and perhaps snow in the local mountains.

While skies will clear later today and remain so through most of the weekend, it will be cold. Daytime temperatures along the coast will reach into the low 60s with lows dipping into the low 40s tonight, and frost will be visible inland.

“We might even see frost as near the coast as the Del Mar Racetrack,” Shigehara said.