How much has the weather changed over the years?

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) – Although patchy fog was reported in coastal areas Wednesday afternoon, weather conditions during Thanksgiving week were mostly clear and dry for San Diego County.

Although places to the north, including Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, experienced bouts of rain and snow in recent days, San Diego was not affected by the atmospheric river that gripped much of the West Coast.

San Diego is no stranger to stormy weather this time of year.

In fact, the National Weather Service recorded a strong storm moving across the region on Thanksgiving Day 2019. The storm brought wind gusts between 40 and 50 miles per hour as well as heavy rains that caused flooding and erosion along the coast and valleys in San Diego County, according to the NWS.

Previously, on Thanksgiving Day 2009, a rain event ended a streak of 164 consecutive dry days in San Diego that began in June of that year.

For 48 years until Friday, in 1976, it was 32 degrees in Borrego Springs – the earliest temperature of the season in which a temperature below freezing was recorded, according to the NWS.

Then, in 1991, strong winds and snowfall swept across Southern California. The storm knocked out power to about 60,000 people in Los Angeles and San Diego.

Decades later, 2021 saw the warmest November on record, recording about 1.8 degrees above the average at various climate stations in the region.

Weather experts predict La Niña will bring drier conditions to Southern California this year. However, because it is a weaker system than in the past, there are also reasons to believe San Diego County could see more rain this winter.