Evans, of Las Vegas, said he first started attending the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade as a kid in the 1980s, but that he never remembered a time when the entire street near his mother’s house — a few blocks from downtown Henderson — was packed with parked cars on a parade day.

A week of rainy weather, reminiscent of the Emerald Isle, set the stage for San Diego’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Balboa Park on Saturday. Thousands of people dawned green at the 43rd annual Irish festival and embraced the warm sun.