LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – As the steady drizzle with periods of heavy and record-setting rainfall for late June began tapering off Tuesday afternoon, much warmer and drier weather was anticipated to return beginning Wednesday and continuing throughout the weekend.
This has been an unusual year for rainfall, according to the University of California Watershed Sciences.
That organization said recently that this water year – Oct. 1 through Sept. 30 – began as one of the wettest on record. A series of storms in early December brought more than 18 inches of rain to Cobb Mountain – which received the most rain in California in that storm system – before the arrival of the driest January on record, as previously reported.
Then it rained in June, not just once, but twice, thanks this last time from an “atmospheric river” – also known as the Pineapple Express – which usually occurs in late fall into early winter.
This rare early-summer storm system brought measurable amounts of rain throughout Northern California and Lake County, with several areas breaking records for rainfall at this time of year including Sacramento, San Francisco and the Napa Valley, according to the Weather Channel.
Rainfall totals for Lake County were less than initially forecast with this rain system, with most areas around Lake County receiving less than one inch.
From the below-normal daytime temperatures early this week, highs will climb back into the 80s Wednesday, with muggy and humid conditions, according to Western Weather Group Lake County, before reaching above-normal temperatures by this weekend.
Friday will be hot and sunny in the low- to upper 90s as the thermometer ticks upwards each day throughout the weekend and into early next week, when the hottest locations will reach the century mark or higher.
Overnight lows Wednesday will be a bit cooler as skies clear – in the upper 40s- to mid-50s – then also will trend upwards according to forecasters throughout the weekend.
A slight decline in temperatures doesn't look possible until near or after the July 4 holiday, forecasters predicted.
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