June Gloom! Extended Tour!

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July 18th, 2005 by Kelson. Posted in Comic Con 2005, Travel and tagged for Climate, clouds, gloom, San Diego, Weather

With luck the people complaining about the “unseasonable” morning cloud cover have all realized we get the same thing every year. Although I don’t think it usually lasts this far into July. We were standing at the America Plaza transfer station on Thursday morning, watching the fog roll in past the buildings at the south end, but by the time we hit the Gaslamp district for lunch, it was all cleared away.

We noticed an interesting coastal climate zone, though. On the trip down Wednesday afternoon, the clouds came in somewhere around Mission Viejo or San Juan Capistrano and stayed locked in all the way through La Jolla. It finally started clearing up just as we were reaching San Diego. Then on the trip back, a bit later in the afternoon on Sunday, the clouds rolled in as we reached La Jolla and didn’t break up until we reached Mission Viejo. We stopped in San Clemente for coffee (it was a long weekend with lots of walking and not much sleep), and the barista asked us if we’d been to Oceanfest, adding that it wasn’t really a good day for it. We explained we were on our way back from San Diego, he asked whether it was better down there, and we told him that it was warm and clear—but only south of La Jolla.

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3 Responses to “June Gloom! Extended Tour!”

aeryncrichton says:

July 19, 2005 at 9:30 AM

We noticed the same thing on our drive back from San Diego Sunday afternoon. Totally socked in from La Jolla to San Juan…and sunny and nice on either end.

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