LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A low pressure system set to arrive over Northern California is keeping temperatures around the region below normal for the season and bringing the possibility of thunderstorms this weekend.
The National Weather Service said the low pressure system is expected to push onto the California coast on Friday before moving across Northern California on Saturday.
As a result of that pressure anomaly, maximum temperatures are forecast to be 5 to 11 degrees below normal on Friday and 6 to 20 degrees below normal on Saturday before warming up again on Sunday and reaching above normal temperatures next week, the National Weather Service reported.
The system also is bringing with it a chance of showers and thunderstorms over the coastal foothills, the Shasta mountains and the northern Sacramento Valley on Friday and Saturday, based on the forecast.
The specific Lake County forecast calls for daytime highs on Friday in the low 80s and nighttime temperatures ranging from the high 40s into the low 50s.
Those cooler Friday night temperatures are forecast to be combined with winds up as high as 14 miles per hour, with gusts into the low 20s.
Winds of up to 10 miles per hour are forecast during the daytime on Saturday, based on the forecast.
The National Weather Service also is predicting a 20-percent chance of rain and thunderstorms on Saturday, with temperatures into the high 70s.
Conditions on Saturday night are forecast to hover in the low to mid 50s, with winds up to 11 miles per hour, forecasters said.
On Sunday, the forecast calls for temperatures in the high 80s during the day and high 50s at night, before rising into the 90s during the day during the first part of the new week.
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Cooler temperatures, possibility of thunderstorms in weekend forecast
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