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The system is expected to produce scattered showers into Tuesday

Print It did little to impact the region’s drought, but parts of San Diego County got a good drenching on Monday as monsoonal moisture continued to produce shots of rain during one of the driest months of the year. The National Weather Service says that Lake Cuyamaca received 2.32 inches of precipitation and Palomar Mountain got 1.10 inches during the 48-hour period ending at 2:45 p.m. Monday. Forecasters say that their primary and secondary stations also showed that areas of Oceanside receiv...

(NWS ) San Diego County faces a third straight night of heavy snow in the mountains and sporadic and intense rain elsewhere from a plodding storm out of the Gulf of Alaska that has brought unusually cold air to Southern California. The National Weather Service says that fresh rounds of rain cells will move ashore Thursday afternoon and intensify Thursday night and last into Friday morning. The cells could drop 0.30 inches to 0.40 inches of rain, lifting the three-day precipitation totals to mo...

It’s time to hope for a “March miracle.” We badly need rain and won’t get much — if any — over the next week. San Diego International Airport has recorded only 2.88 inches of precipitation since the latest rainy season began on October 1. That’s 4.16 inches below average. February has proven to be a near-total bust. Forecasters say the airport will finish the month with 0.10 inches of rain, making this the 15th driest February since record keeping began in 1855. San Diego averag...