Weather Changes Ahead For San Diego

SAN DIEGO -- If you don't like the weather at the beginning of this week, you'll love it by the end of the week.

Or vice-versa.

A National Weather Service forecaster said Monday that a deepening marine layer will bring a chance of drizzle, but high pressure systems are setting up to bring hot and sunny conditions for the last few days of the work week.

A couple hundredths of an inch of rain could fall early Monday morning, enough to "wet the ground here and there," said Dan Atkin, a NWS forecaster at the San Diego office.

Tuesday will be "a transition day," then there will be "a big warm-up as high pressure builds aloft," Atkin said. "There will be record-high temperatures by Friday, if not before."

Friday should be the hottest day of the week, he said. The tentative NWS forecast calls for inland highs in the 90s that day.

A strong upper level ridge of high pressure is building off the west coast and a surface high pressure system in Idaho will bring an offshore flow, according to the forecaster.

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