T. S. Eliot called April the cruellest month (The Wasteland), but here in the Sonoran Desert June is the most difficult month (at least for me). View above is from campus of the Catalinas at about 3:00 pm MST - June 24th. Hard to imagine skies more clear. The visible image below is from 2:00 pm - only some isolated Cu over high terrain (there is a bit of hard-to-see smoke from the Woodbury wildfire near Roosevelt Lake - this fire has now burned over 100,000 acres).
The heat of the per-monsoon period, along with little chance of rainfall, make June very difficult until the onset of summer thunderstorms. Precipitation forecast at bottom is from 12 UTC WRF-GFS and is of total rainfall through noon on July 1st. June gloom in San Diego sounds pretty good right now.
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