The Outlook: Cool, Cloudy and Damp

Morning drizzle and a cooling trend caused by a storm that originated near Alaska will persist through the weekend, the National Weather Service in San Diego said.

The rain-bearing storm is just northwest of San Diego and may break up before reaching here, but it will cause quite a bit of cloudiness, cooler weather and a 20% chance of morning sprinkles, forecaster Wilbur Shigehara said.

“What we get will be remnants of the storm, but we can’t rule out the possibility of drizzles just about any morning this week,” he said.

With only afternoon sunshine and breezes up to 20 m.p.h., temperatures will struggle to get out of the 60s along the coast and inland valleys, Shigehara said. Temperatures are running as much as 8 degrees below the norm of 68 degrees for this time of year.

“The weather is fairly cool for the end of April, and we usually don’t get sprinkles going into May,” he said.

Temperatures in the deserts will struggle to get out of the 80s when they should be close to 90 degrees, and the mountains will see temperatures only in the upper 50s when they should be well into the 60s, Shigehara said. Breezes in the mountains and deserts will gust up to 30 m.p.h.

The cooling trend follows on the heels of a weak subtropical disturbance that brought a trace of rain to the county Tuesday.

While most areas received 0.01 of an inch or less, Chula Vista recorded 0.10 of an inch.