The main weather story for the weekend will be a cold front that’ll move into the area later Saturday, which will help to bring about the first significant rain chance in weeks. A few short-lived seabreeze thunderstorms got close enough to produce a trace of rain at the airport today — the first non-zero rainfall recording at the airport since April 6 — but the unmeasurable sprinkles have kept April 2026’s rainfall total at 0.01″ as we head into the month’s final week, currently in a tie with 1972 for the driest April on record.

Saturday’s rain will likely occur around and after sunset. We’ll get much of the day in rain-free as a result, with plenty of sunshine a possibility especially for the first part of the day. Temperatures will head toward the 90° mark in the afternoon ahead of the front, making for one more significantly warmer than normal day before some moderation enters the forecast for next week.

Showers and maybe a few thunderstorms arrive around and after sunset Saturday with the front, though like Friday, a seabreeze popup or two earlier in the day can’t be totally ruled out. Rain chances peak overnight Saturday into early Sunday as the front moves by. Rain chances don’t totally evaporate on Sunday as low pressure spins up well offshore, but chances will be lower with just a few of us seeing additional rainfall. Temperatures behind the front will run a bit less warm — think low-to-mid-80s.

Getting into next week, a series of disturbances will move across the area, which may instigate additional shower and storm chances while temperatures run in the upper 70s to low 80s. Despite the additional rain chances, it still doesn’t look like it will be remotely close to enough to start to dent this drought. This is gonna be a tough one to dig ourselves out of, that’s for sure.

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