As Southern California braces for a mix of weather conditions, the National Weather Service in San Diego has forecasted a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon for the San Bernardino Mountains and adjacent high desert areas. “A deep marine layer will continue into Friday morning with patchy night and morning drizzle,” according to the National Weather Service. The weather pattern suggests a shallow marine layer with less coastal cloud spread over the weekend and a gradual warming trend for the region’s mountains and deserts into early next week.
The marine layer, currently at about 3500 feet, has brought drizzle primarily to the coast and valleys of San Diego County and parts of southern Orange County since Wednesday evening. The steady deep marine layer will remain into Friday morning, limiting afternoon clearing, particularly for the San Diego County coast. “The marine layer will decrease to around 2000 to 2500 feet during the
weekend,” the National Weather Service noted, indicating reduced coastal low clouds extending into valleys…