LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – After a weekend of much-needed rain, the forecast indicates more rain is ahead this week.
Based on 24-hour reports put together by the National Weather Service office in Sacramento, Lake County received a large amount of rain from the end of last week through Monday.
The most rain reported in Lake County was in Whispering Pines on Cobb, where 8.84 inches of rain was recorded between Thursday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
The following monitoring station totals are for Thursday through Monday morning.
- Clearlake (1,349 feet elevation): 3.52”
- Cow Mountain Ridge (3,355 feet elevation): 4.99”
- Gravelly Valley Airport (two miles southwest): 5.92”
- Hidden Valley Lake (one mile southeast): 2.15”
- Hidden Valley Lake (two miles east northeast): 2.46”
- Hidden Valley Lake (eight miles east northeast): 2.68”
- Hidden Valley Lake (four miles north): 4.05”
- High Glade Lookout (4,807 feet): 4.65”
- Kelseyville (two miles west southwest of Kelseyville, 1,607 feet elevation): 1.84”
- Konocti (2,163 feet elevation): 3.73”
- Lakeport (one mile south southwest of Lakeport at 1,381 feet elevation): 1.21”
- Lakeport (1,390 feet elevation): 4.19”
- Nice (three miles west southwest of Nice, 1,437 feet elevation): 4.55”
- Whispering Pines (2,700 feet): 8.84”
- Wilbur Springs (one miles south southeast, 2,085 feet): 4.34”
- Witter Springs (nine miles north northeast, 3,740 feet elevation): 5.97”
While the county got some sunshine and a chance to start drying out on Monday, this week's forecast indicates rain is set to return.
The National Weather Service says there are chances of light to moderate rain lasting from Tuesday evening through next Sunday and Monday.
In other weather news, the Sierra Nevada near Yosemite had about 7 inches of snow over the weekend, which is helping bolster the state's snowpack.
On Monday, the California Department of Water Resources reported that the snowpack's statewide percent of normal had risen to 29 percent from 15 percent last Thursday.
Meteorologist Scott Mace contributed to this report.
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