As a physicist, I find the Southern California persistent severe drought, punctuated by storms and floods from "atmospheric rivers" to be bad enough to threaten the future of San Diego as a city.
The California drought/flood cycle is not likely to end anytime soon as the persistent "not for the past 1,000-years drought" makes the land less able to absorb rain and snowpack melt, making for more runoff and more flooding, thus compounding the problem.
"Sporadic" blooms may be all a beekeeper has in a much shorter timeframe than one might expect.
Despite the heavy rains and floods, ending the drought would take multiple contiguous sequential years of well above average rain and snowfall amounts:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z
Major reservoirs remain below normal levels:
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
And the mountain snow line keeps retreating, leaving little snow-melt for summer water supply, when it is most needed. (To explain, despite good Jan 2022 snowfall, by April, most of that snow had disappeared, leading to the third-lowest measurements on record for the same spot):
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/11/899/html
So, to summarize, San Diego and surrounding areas (La Jolla, Del Mar...) will likely return to "a desert by the beach". Mission Beach has been flooded several times this year, and Mission Bay may soon have multiple "entrance channels" unless the Mission Beach dunes are quickly reinforced, planted, and maintained. I loved tossing fish to sea lions in La Jolla, but owning property anywhere on the CA coast no longer make any sense, given the ongoing risks, and the sharp 2021 increase in National Flood Insurance rates.
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