Start of the Rainy Season
This weekend's showers - the first in several months - mark our annual return to the rainy season. Each summer San Diego is warm and sunny, oftentimes without a cloud in the sky. But then Fall and Winter roll around, and the rain comes back. Last year was particularly wet, setting records up and down the coast, from San Diego county up through Los Angeles county. I can't imagine that this year's winter will be as wet (or wetter) than last year's, but if the last few days are any indication, it's not going to be a particularly dry winter either.
Personally this is my least favorite time of the year. Give me sun and warmth over drizzle and gray. The only redeeming thing about San Diego winters is the occassional Santa Ana winds, which are hot winds blowing down from the high desert. Each time the Santa Anas kick up, which is usually a few times a winter, we get cloudless days in the 70s in the middle of winter. Being able to walk down the street in shorts and a t-shirt in mid-February, the sun warming my skin, while back home in the Midwest the family's digging out of the latest snowstorm, helps me put up with the gray, cloudy, rainy days that dominate the winter months.