/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diego by By Ry Rivard Quoted: Mark Weston and Mark Watton
San Diego’s overabundance of water during one of California’s worst droughts has reached a new, absurd level. The San Diego County Water Authority has dumped a half billion gallons of costly drinking water into a lake near Chula Vista. Now that drinking water has been poured into a lake, the water must be treated […]
Southern California got drenched Sunday, with some areas getting up to three inches of rain. It’s an El Niño year. So does that mean Southern California’s rainfall is ahead of normal this year? Not yet. As of Monday morning, the region has received 41.1 percent of a normal winter’s precipitation. That’s behind even the median, […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Gary Robbins and Lyndsay Winkley
Workers across the county were hustling Monday to clear streets of the broken trees that were blown into traffic Sunday by a powerful wind and rain storm that also caused major power outages. Winds gusted as high as 65 mph along the coast and hit with particular force in La Jolla, clogging parts of North […]
More than 3.7 inches of rain fell on the mountains above Azusa, winds topped 70 miles per hour and the San Fernando Valley escaped the possibility of a”small, brief tornado” as a strong squall line of rain blew through today. The line of strong storms, moving east, was in a line from Malibu to Burbank […]
San Diego’s Oversupply of Water Reaches a New, Absurd Level
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diego by By Ry Rivard Quoted: Mark Weston and Mark WattonSan Diego’s overabundance of water during one of California’s worst droughts has reached a new, absurd level. The San Diego County Water Authority has dumped a half billion gallons of costly drinking water into a lake near Chula Vista. Now that drinking water has been poured into a lake, the water must be treated […]
How Much Rain Has SoCal Received This Year? Here’s One Way to Keep Track
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /89.3 KPCC (Pasadena)by By Aaron MendelsonSouthern California got drenched Sunday, with some areas getting up to three inches of rain. It’s an El Niño year. So does that mean Southern California’s rainfall is ahead of normal this year? Not yet. As of Monday morning, the region has received 41.1 percent of a normal winter’s precipitation. That’s behind even the median, […]
County Cleans Up After Damaging Storm
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Gary Robbins and Lyndsay WinkleyWorkers across the county were hustling Monday to clear streets of the broken trees that were blown into traffic Sunday by a powerful wind and rain storm that also caused major power outages. Winds gusted as high as 65 mph along the coast and hit with particular force in La Jolla, clogging parts of North […]
Winter Storm Brings Heavy Rain to Southern California
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Daily Newsby By Hans LaetzMore than 3.7 inches of rain fell on the mountains above Azusa, winds topped 70 miles per hour and the San Fernando Valley escaped the possibility of a”small, brief tornado” as a strong squall line of rain blew through today. The line of strong storms, moving east, was in a line from Malibu to Burbank […]