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The country remains untouristed, but is perfectly safe to visit — with lots to see for the intrepid traveler.
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Outdoors
Cuyamaca's poplars, Palomar's oaks, docile tarantulas
And the nearly imperceptible temperature drop
Autumn Color in San Diego County’s mountains reaches its greatest intensity in late October and early November. The forested heights of Palomar Mountain are especially colorful right now. Black oaks on Palomar’s rolling uplands will ...
Oaks bring fall to Cuyamaca, Laguna, and Palomar mountains
Pinkish or purplish, hibiscus-like flowers bloom on pink floss
The Floss Silk Tree, a conspicuous “autumn bloomer” here and there around San Diego, has been showing off its pinkish or purplish, hibiscus-like flowers for a few weeks. The broad, heavy trunks of this South ...
Deepest sand of the year
Winter storms will pull it off
As the Beach-Going Season Winds Down, San Diego County’s coastline is padded by what is likely the deepest and widest accumulations of sand we’ll see this year. Many stretches of the coastline are vulnerable to ...
Autumn trademarks in San Diego — dense fog and Chinese flame trees
November is our real fall
Chinese Flame Trees are now displaying colorful clusters of orange, reddish, or salmon-pink seed pods. Good specimens line the south end of Balboa Drive in Balboa Park and Lake Murray Boulevard through San Diego’s San ...
San Diego sunsets 75 seconds earlier every day
Coastal sage at nadir of green
The Time of Sunset changes most rapidly this time of the year. This is mainly because the sun is swinging rapidly south along the ecliptic (its apparent path through the background stars). From the latitude ...
Thunderheads coming
Even coastal San Diego County can experience summer raindrops
Birdwatchers need not despair now that the winter migrants are gone. Plenty of shore birds can be found on summer evenings in the natural coastal wetland areas of San Diego County. From south to north ...
June brings gloom, crape myrtles, and western azaleas
Overcast on the coast, sizzling temps inland
“June Gloom,” the cool and intermittently overcast conditions likely to dominate the beach and coastal areas through the remainder of this month, mocks the already sizzling temperatures inland. If it weren’t for the ocean’s enormous ...
Spring wildflowers remain, despite onset of June Gloom
Look for paintbrush, purple nightshade, coreopsis, sea fig, popcorn flower, and red monkey flower
The Catalina Eddy, a meteorological condition responsible for days-long episodes of dreary, overcast weather over San Diego, is most likely to occur in May and June. This weather pattern, which intensifies our late spring “June ...
The brash coloration of wildflowers and silk oaks
Bloom still to be found on north-facing slopes and in shady canyons
San Diego’s Coastal Wildflower Bloom continues practically unabated this year owing to late-season rains and cooler weather during April. On north-facing slopes and in shady canyon bottoms, where the sun’s drying effects have not yet ...
Purple haze covers San Diego, locusts dot Julian, and snakes emerge to hunt
Jacarandas and locust trees in bloom; snakes hungry
Blue-Blossoming Jacaranda Trees have already produced a first wave of color along the streets of San Diego. By early or mid-May, warm weather permitting, this Brazilian import could put on a dazzling show. The larger ...
Scampering caterpillars devour Anza Borrego's superbloom
Some sand verbena and desert sunflowers are hanging on.
By early April, the Anza-Borrego superbloom was all but over. Yellow puffs of blooming brittlebush still dotted the mountains on approach, and orange-petaled spindles still tipped the ocotillos’ tall tendrils, but the carpet of flowers ...
