It may not be fireplace-and-hot-chocolate weather, but after several days of dry, out-of-season heat, fall should finally start acting something like fall.
Temperature records were set yesterday in El Cajon, Vista, Ramona and at the Wild Animal Park and Brown Field. Lindbergh Field, San Diego's official weather station, hit 87, 1 degree shy of the mark set in 1976.
The summerlike weather should be over, at least for the next week or so. National Weather Service forecasters said they expect temperatures throughout the county to drop 10 degrees or more today, then another 5 degrees or more tomorrow.
High pressure that had been causing the record heat is weakening and moving east, forecaster Noel Isla said. That should allow the marine layer and sea breezes to cool the coast today and reach farther into the inland valleys tomorrow.
More record heat
by the numbers
High temperature marks set yesterday (previous record and year in parenthesis):
94: El Cajon (85, 2005)
92: Vista (87, 1976)
92: Wild Animal Park (88, 1989)
90: Brown Field (81, 1956)
90: Ramona (85, 2005)
78: Chula Vista (tie, 2002)
SOURCE: National Weather Service
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The end of yet another autumn hot spell comes none too soon for Heidi Hansen-Garvey, a clothes buyer at Hansen's Surf Shop in Encinitas. Spring and summer wear are still selling at the store, while sales of sweat shirts and fleece jackets – the shop's usual fall merchandise – have been lagging.
“I'm bored with the heat,” Hansen-Garvey said. “I would definitely like to get into some jeans, some covered shoes and some sweat shirts.”
So far, San Diego County's fall has been better suited for shorts, sandals and T-shirts. The normal high in mid-November is 70 degrees, but yesterday was the fourth straight day that it topped 80. A streak that long never happened in September, August or July.
Since Oct. 1, 22 days have had recorded temperatures of 80 degrees or higher at Lindbergh Field. That's more than during the first ninth months of 2008 combined.
Robert Krier: (619) 293-2241; rob.krier@uniontrib.com
