We had some much-needed rain a few weeks ago, after little wisps of tropical storm Kay (FKA Hurricane Kay) came up from Baja. But Los Angeles didn’t get anything like what happened in San Diego, where dramatic winds and record-breaking rainfall put on what was apparently quite a Friday afternoon show. Dear readers, it made me wish this were the San Diego Weather Letter. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciated the steady and sustained, if light, rainfall we got here in Hollywood — especially because it semi-broke the 110+ degree heat that had plagued us for a week — but the heavy, humid air before the storm seemed like it was promising something a little more exciting than what we got.
Something that struck me when I was enviously Googling San Diego’s rainfall totals was that Mount Laguna, a cute little camping destination 6,000 feet above sea level in San Diego’s Cleveland National Forest, received a preposterous 4.99” of rain from Kay. I had never heard of Mount Laguna before, but it looks like it gets a decent amount of snow in the winter months and has a population of 57. It’s very beautiful and kind of kitschy: