Lake County >> A storm system coming in from the north as early as Friday morning will bring some showers and cooler, possibly freezing, temperatures for the weekend.
National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Kurth predicts chances of rain through Saturday with “some lingering maybe very early Sunday morning,” but says they will only bring about 0.1 to 0.5 inches of rainfall.
This storm system is coming from Canada, and “quit unlike the atmospheric river systems we saw in December and earlier in February,” Kurth said. “The other storm systems have been pretty warm and wet, this one is dropping down south with enough moisture to give us some precipitation.”
While Lake County won’t see as much rainfall this time around, it has already exceeded the yearly to-date average of 20.5 inches. Meteorologists measured 22.7 inches from October through February. More than half of that total is from December. The county received nearly triple its average rainfall at more than 14 inches and brought the lake level number out of the negatives.
“Clear Lake (area) is actually above normal, which is interesting,” Kurth said. “Not many places in the area can say they are above normal.”
The actual lake however, is still below the February 5.7 feet average at 4.52 feet on the Rumsey gauge as of Thursday morning.
The weekend’s high temperatures will generally be around 60 on Saturday, and a bit warmer Sunday in the mid-60s if the storm system moves out. Kurth said it depends on how much of the cloud coverage clears.
“If clouds move early enough, it would allow temps to cool off because clouds keep temperatures warmer,” Kurth said.
The weekend’s lows will come Saturday morning, with most of the area in the upper 30s to around 40, but there could be pockets in some of the valleys of cold air as low as the 20s.
Kurth said its unlikely the county will receive any snowfall, as most of it will fall in the Sierras.
“The way that the storm is a little bit more to the east, it is going to favor more the Sierra than coastal mountains.”
