It’s been a very long while since we have seen the kind of winter weather we’re having this week in San Diego and across Southern California.
The headlines in the San Diego Union Tribune and the Los Angeles Times refer to it as “a wild storm” and “so unusual.”
How unusual? It is the first time a blizzard warning has been issued for the L-A area mountains since 1989. And the snowfall amounts in San Diego County’s mountains are predicted to be up to four feet on Mt. Laguna and up to six feet on Palomar Mountain, a lot more than we’ve seen in a very long time.
One meteorologist with the National Weather Service says this storm is what he called “a snowmaker of the likes we have not seen for many years.”
Along with the snow, and the heavy rain expected as well, this storm also has brought unusually high wind gusts into the 85 to 90 mile an hour range in the mountains and even 50 miles an hour near the coast. And there already have been plenty of trees blown down and other wind damage.
The National Weather Service has issued a string of warnings and advisories and county officials in San Diego and L-A have issued alerts on how to stay safe this week.
Maybe this is Mother Nature’s way of reminding us that even in San Diego, a place known for having America’s finest weather, every so often we have to deal with weather that much of the rest of the country has to face every year.
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