May 13, 2026 • 4 mins
"May gray" has taken over this week, bringing cool mornings and cloudy skies to typically-sunny San Diego. KOGO's Laura Cain asked San Diegans their thoughts on our current weather.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That marine layer.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, it is stubborn that it's back.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
And so is our annual springtime mood swing known as
May Gray. It's got a name now, Yeah. Cocos Laurcane
hit the streets to find out how San Diegans really
feel about the gloomy coastal skies this month.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to May Gray, san Diego's yearly stretch of cool mornings,
stubborn clouds, and the never ending question when will this
burn off? Meteorologists say the dreary skies happen well in
cool ocean water chills the air above it, creating a
thick marine layer that pushes inland overnight and hangs around
through the morning. Add in week spring sunshine and coastal
(00:36):
winds and boom beach blanket skies. What do your fellow
San Diegans say about this spring summer weather pattern. Do
you enjoy May Gray?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's the worst thing that's about the San Diego area
that May Gray and June gloom?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And what makes you not like it? It makes me sad.
Helena Star ninety four one FM in the afternoons, I
want to know what your thoughts are about the phenomenon
known as May Gray.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's real.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
How does it make you feel?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I think we're pretty spoiled here in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're like our sunny in seventy two.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So when it's a little gray outside, it's like, m
feels a little Northwestern, a little depressive, but you know what,
we'll get through at people. Do you ever feel bad
for tourists that come in May?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Don't come in May, don't come at all. What are
your thoughts in the phenomenon of May gray?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I think May gray is more of a mindset.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
If it's something you prepare for and you know we'll
move on naturally, it'll just pass by and won't really
do so much to affect your mood.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Do you feel bad for people who come here tourists during.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The month of May?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Maybe? But Siene goes still beautiful even with clouds. We
still have so much to enjoy and see despite it all.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Do you know the phenomenon May gray?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah, certainly I'd rather have it sunny May. You're right
there at the beginning of summer, and who wants to
look at overcast guys? And then we go into June gloom. Yeah,
that's fun too.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Do you how do you feel about tourists who come here?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Do you feel like guilty at all? Well? No, but
what irritates me is when tourists come here and they
dumped the litter all over the place and kind of
treat it like it's maybe their home or their town
where they live, which is just totally trashed.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
There's a whole other subject for another day, for another day.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
May gray and June gloom are necessary. It's part of
the weather cycle that we have here in San Diego,
and there's no getting rid of it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do you in a way do you kind of almost
enjoy the cloudiness in the morning.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's not doing any harm. I mean, maybe the tourists
don't like it because they came here to get a
tan you know, go to with a tanning firm. You
got to do it in the Morning's any fler?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Weather experts say this year's May gray has been pretty
typical so far, So don't stress. The sun hasn't ghosted
as it's just running fashionably late. Laura Cane, Coco News.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know who loves the May gray?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All the concession stands along the waterfront, they're all selling sweatshirts.
Oh yeah, and it's so funny how I see people
get off the cruise shifts as I do my daily
run out there, and I see them all lined up
to get a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, they've heard forever how sunny San Diego is, and
then they get here and they're like, oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Actually kind of cheating, it's right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Those I kind of got used to it. I spent
almost all every vacation over on the northern California coast
way up all right, and there's always fog in the morning,
right always. Oh, but noon one o'clock it's sunny again.
So I just kind of got used to it. So
I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They don't. They just do May gray. They you know,
June gloom, and we have it here in Sand Diego.
But in July it's no sky.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
July.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, you ever heard that?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And then Faugust.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We just like to complain. That's what the bottom line is.
We like to complain.
That marine layer.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, it is stubborn that it's back.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
And so is our annual springtime mood swing known as
May Gray. It's got a name now, Yeah. Cocos Laurcane
hit the streets to find out how San Diegans really
feel about the gloomy coastal skies this month.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Welcome to May Gray, san Diego's yearly stretch of cool mornings,
stubborn clouds, and the never ending question when will this
burn off? Meteorologists say the dreary skies happen well in
cool ocean water chills the air above it, creating a
thick marine layer that pushes inland overnight and hangs around
through the morning. Add in week spring sunshine and coastal
(00:36):
winds and boom beach blanket skies. What do your fellow
San Diegans say about this spring summer weather pattern. Do
you enjoy May Gray?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's the worst thing that's about the San Diego area
that May Gray and June gloom?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And what makes you not like it? It makes me sad.
Helena Star ninety four one FM in the afternoons, I
want to know what your thoughts are about the phenomenon
known as May Gray.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's real.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
How does it make you feel?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I think we're pretty spoiled here in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're like our sunny in seventy two.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
So when it's a little gray outside, it's like, m
feels a little Northwestern, a little depressive, but you know what,
we'll get through at people. Do you ever feel bad
for tourists that come in May?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Don't come in May, don't come at all. What are
your thoughts in the phenomenon of May gray?
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I think May gray is more of a mindset.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 4 (01:36):
If it's something you prepare for and you know we'll
move on naturally, it'll just pass by and won't really
do so much to affect your mood.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Do you feel bad for people who come here tourists during.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The month of May?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Maybe? But Siene goes still beautiful even with clouds. We
still have so much to enjoy and see despite it all.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Do you know the phenomenon May gray?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah, certainly I'd rather have it sunny May. You're right
there at the beginning of summer, and who wants to
look at overcast guys? And then we go into June gloom. Yeah,
that's fun too.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Do you how do you feel about tourists who come here?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Do you feel like guilty at all? Well? No, but
what irritates me is when tourists come here and they
dumped the litter all over the place and kind of
treat it like it's maybe their home or their town
where they live, which is just totally trashed.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
There's a whole other subject for another day, for another day.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
May gray and June gloom are necessary. It's part of
the weather cycle that we have here in San Diego,
and there's no getting rid of it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Do you in a way do you kind of almost
enjoy the cloudiness in the morning.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's not doing any harm. I mean, maybe the tourists
don't like it because they came here to get a
tan you know, go to with a tanning firm. You
got to do it in the Morning's any fler?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Weather experts say this year's May gray has been pretty
typical so far, So don't stress. The sun hasn't ghosted
as it's just running fashionably late. Laura Cane, Coco News.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You know who loves the May gray?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
All the concession stands along the waterfront, they're all selling sweatshirts.
Oh yeah, and it's so funny how I see people
get off the cruise shifts as I do my daily
run out there, and I see them all lined up
to get a sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Well, they've heard forever how sunny San Diego is, and
then they get here and they're like, oh, it's.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Actually kind of cheating, it's right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Those I kind of got used to it. I spent
almost all every vacation over on the northern California coast
way up all right, and there's always fog in the morning,
right always. Oh, but noon one o'clock it's sunny again.
So I just kind of got used to it. So
I don't.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't hate it.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They don't. They just do May gray. They you know,
June gloom, and we have it here in Sand Diego.
But in July it's no sky.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
July.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, you ever heard that?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And then Faugust.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
We just like to complain. That's what the bottom line is.
We like to complain.
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