San Diego weather: More chances for rain before Santa Ana conditions arrive

Today will be mostly cloudy with a chance for sprinkles along the beaches this morning. Our next round of showers will arrive late this evening and overnight tonight. Some showers will be lingering into Wednesday morning. Forecast rain totals are around 0.1″-0.25″ at most. Spotty showers will be around through the day Wednesday.

There may still be a slight chance for showers in the mountains Thursday, but most of the county will begin to dry out as Santa Ana conditions form on Friday. This will continue through the weekend with warmer and dry conditions.

Santa Ana conditions will transition us from our rainy pattern to a much drier pattern through next week. A gradual warming trend will continue next week bringing unseasonably warm temperatures to the county.

Our fire threat will be lower across the county since we’ve seen so much rainfall lately. However, we are always on alert when we have dry offshore winds. Wind gusts in the mountains could be around 30mph across the weekend.

Rain recap: The 3.08″ of rain that has fallen in San Diego so far in 2026 is the most rain ever for the first five days of January. New Year’s Day alone got more than we’d normally get for the entire month.

Nearly 8″ of rain has fallen since October 1st, which is more than double what we’d have in a normal season by this point.

And in the first three months of the season, San Diego has gotten more rain (7.08″) than all of last season (5.07″).