LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The National Weather Service’s Sacramento office reported that the region’s first widespread rainfall event of the season is expected to arrive on Monday, with the forecast expecting chances of rain through the middle of the week.
Forecasters reported that a weather system offshore of British Columbia that originated in the Bering Sea west of Alaska is bringing rain as well as temperatures that could drop by as much as 25 degrees to Northern California.
The long-range forecast said the cooling trend will begin on Sunday, when temperatures will be down around 5 to 10 degrees cooler than Saturday.
The Lake County forecast calls for chances of rain beginning on Sunday evening and continuing through Monday morning. Expected rainfall totals are up to a tenth of an inch.
Conditions are then forecast to clear before chances of rain return to the forecast on Wednesday. The remainder of the week is expected to be clear.
Daytime temperatures on Sunday are forecast to be in the low 80s, dropping into the low 70s on Monday before topping out in the mid 80s for the rest of the week.
Nighttime temperatures this week are forecast to range between the mid 50s and low 60s.
There also is a forecast of winds into the week, with west winds topping out around 13 miles per hour.
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Weather system expected to bring rain to Northern California
- Elizabeth Larson
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