San Diego real estate blog - Peter Toner

It’s going to be an incredible weekend - the weather forecast has us enjoying beautiful sunny skies with temperatures around 70 degrees!
If you are at a loss for something to do, and you dont want to visit houses - I invite you to visit my Yacht Brokers “open house” Boat Show - this Saturday and Sunday [...]

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Air quality here in San Diego is still an issue and there are homes still in danger, but it would seem that the worst is over - according to news reports this morning.
Here is a link to the latest map of the fires very detailed in PDF format - the host website, set up by San Diego [...]

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San Diego is burning, the perfect storm conditions of Santa Anna winds, humidity of less than 10% and the driest conditions for over 130 years combined to provide the life for any fire to burn uncontrollably.
Could any of this have been prevented? With these sort of climatic changes, unfortunately not.
We did indeed learn from the [...]

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Here is a list of resourses that are available right now:

Call the San Diego Red Cross at: 1-800-951-5600 or 1-866-438-4636. 
The San Diego County Department of Parks and Recreation is waiving the 2-week stay limit on all campgrounds and reduced campsite fees of $10 per day for displaced residents through December 31.  Call 858-565-3600.
Various hotels are offering [...]

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Is it really the second week in October?? For those of us living in San Diego, you wouldn’t know it by the weather! This is the best time of year for us locals - the tourism traffic has slowed down considerably and the weather is gorgeous, just right for enjoying a day at the beach…..
I [...]

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San Diego locals and beach tourists cringe when the weather forecaster utters the words “May Grey/June Gloom again this week”. We have all heard the term used and know it well. Every year during the months of May and June, the grey rolls in over the coast and we sit anxiously awaiting for it to [...]

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San Diego’s rash of rainfall to affect the County with negatives as well as positives -
After several years of below-average rainfall, San Diego County’s reservoirs have dropped to below 50 percent holding capacity. This year’s rash of rainstorms have begun to fill up the county’s water reserves but such drought has begged this season’s weather [...]

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So, San Diego broke the record this morning (Sunday October 17th 2004) with 181 days without rain at about 3am. The last time it rained in San Diego was on April 17th - for official records measurements are taked at the regional airport, Lindberg Field just north of San Diego Downtown.
It rains so little in [...]

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It’s now officially 145 days since San Diego City had measurable rainfall. Water is a big issue here in Southern California, we have had drought conditions for several years. For more info about San Diego water resources.

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