Lake County >> A Pacific storm system brought in an average of 1.25 inches of rainfall across the county Sunday through Tuesday.
Lakeport saw 1.28 inches of rain, while Kelseyville registered 1.17, Middletown 1.08 and Mount Konocti received 1.22 inches, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Dang.
Data from other areas was not available, but Dang said it was a “fairly narrow spread across the county.”
The totals have already brought Lake County near its April average of about 1.6 inches of rain within the first week.
The low-pressure storm system which originated on the coast of a Alaska also carried with it a drop in temperatures.
Lakeport had an average low of 30 degrees and a high of 49 – about 10 degrees color than average temperatures for April, Dang said.
There were also reports of snow in higher-elevation areas of Lake County, including Cobb and Hopland.
Dang expects temperatures to rise to normal averages within the coming days. He doesn’t expect rainfall at least through the weekend, but there may be a slight chance of rain on Monday.
There was little benefit to the lake. As of Wednesday afternoon, the Clear Lake water level was at 4.48 feet on the Rumsey Gauge, according to the Lake County Department of Water Resources. The lake level crept up .03 feet from Friday.
However, “those numbers right now are kind of ambiguous,” water resources engineer Tom Smythe said. “Wind changes things drastically.”
North west winds played havoc with the Rumsey gauge by pushing water toward Clearlake and away from Lakeport, where the gauge is located.
The daily data went from 4.5 feet on March 30 to 4.41 on Sunday, Smythe said.
“Since then it’s come back up, but we can’t tell how much is due to rain,” Smythe said. Adding that the lake hardly got any runoff from the watershed because of dry conditions.
