current rainfall totals for riverside ca

The Los Angeles area is likely to see rain and mountain snow for the next week, according to the National Weather Service, with temperatures significantly below normal through the middle of the week.

Meanwhile, the San Francisco Bay Area is predicted to have rain showers through Monday before cold and drier conditions arrive through the middle of next week, the weather service said. The snowpack in the Sierra was at dangerously low levels after recent weeks of dry weather but the state Department of Water Resources reported on Christmas Eve that the snowpack was between 114% and 137% of normal across the range with more snow expected. There’s been at least 119 inches recorded so far this month, according to The Mercury News, with more expected over the next 72 hours. “The worst part of the storm is here so expect long delays,” the California Highway Patrol in Truckee tweeted Saturday afternoon about traveling on Interstate 80.Īt Donner Pass in the Sierra, which is along the closed interstate, officials with the University of California, Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory wondered on Twitter if the recent snowfall could break the snowiest December record of 179 inches set in 1970. Interstate 80 connecting Reno, Nevada, to Sacramento over the Sierra was closed in both directions due to poor visibility from the Nevada-California state line to Colfax. Meanwhile, other parts of California received a White Christmas, with snowfall covering the mountains across the state.Ī 70-mile stretch of interstate over the Sierra Nevada was closed Saturday when the storm that dropped nearly 2 feet of snow on some ski resorts around Lake Tahoe overnight got a second wind. The forecast is also calling for a chance of rain Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Showers are forecast for Sunday and Sunday night, Monday and Monday night. The forecast for the county remains wet, according to the NWS. Rain continued to pound the county on Saturday and the forecast from the National Weather Service expects more of the same. While the county, the state and most of the West Coast have been mired in a drought, now storms are hitting with a vengeance. Suddenly, Santa Cruz County can’t turn off the rain.

Current rainfall totals for riverside ca