A late-winter storm doused the San Diego area with rain and mountain snow for second day Thursday, but a dry spell lies ahead.
Though the showers generated by the unsettled atmospheric system out of the Gulf of Alaska were more scattered and short-lived than Wednesday’s storms, they added to some significant moisture amounts across the county, according to the National Weather Service.
Topping the two-day snow accumulations in the East County highlands: Julian, with 18 inches Birch Hill, with 17 inches and Mount Laguna with 11 inches.
Several rural communities recorded more than two inches of rain in the 48-hour tallies through 4:15 p.m.:
- 2.53 inches and 2.33 inches in different parts of Pine Hills;
- 2.49 at Henshaw Dam, and
- 2.1 in Mesa Grande.
Those that received more than an inch and a half include:
- 1.96 at Panorama Point;
- 1.95 in Julian;
- 1.86 in Santa Ysabel;
- 1.66 in Echo Dell;
- 1.57 in Warner Springs, and
- 1.5 in Pine Valley.
In other parts of the county, recorded rain hit:
- 1.24 in Escondido;
- 1.21 in Vista;
- 1.15 in Oceanside;
- 1.09 in Mission Valley;
- 0.99 of an inch in Bonsall and Harbison Canyon;
- 0.98 in San Ysidro;
- 0.93 in Del Mar, the Mount Woodson area and Ramona Airport;
- 0.92 in Deer Springs, Lemon Grove and Valley Center;
- 0.9 in University Heights;
- 0.88 in Santee and Tierra Del Sol;
- 0.84 in La Mesa;
- 0.79 at Lake Murray and Poway;
- 0.67 at Lindbergh Field and Montgomery Field, and
- 0.51 in Chula Vista.
Periods of rain and mountain snowfall are likely to continue Friday in some parts of the region in advance of the start of a spell of dry weather expected to last from Saturday through the end of the next work week, according to meteorologists.
