Rain predicted for Tuesday afternoon

Apr 06, 2015 11:52AM, Published by Timothy Rutt, Editor, Categories: Outdoors, Today, News

The National Weather Service says that we can expect up to an inch of rain Tuesday afternoon:

A COLD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ORIGINATING FROM THE SOUTHERN GULF OF

ALASKA WILL MOVE DOWN THE COAST AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST CALIFORNIA BY

TUESDAY. A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL LIKELY BRING

3 TO 6 HOURS OF STEADY RAIN TO THE REGION…FIRST TO SAN LUIS OBISPO

AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES TUESDAY MORNING…THEN INTO VENTURA AND

LOS ANGELES COUNTIES TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE 6

TO 12 HOURS BEFORE AND AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE. SIGNIFICANT RAIN

CHANCES SHOULD END BY LATE TUESDAY NIGHT.

RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 0.50 AND 1.00 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER SAN

LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES. OVER LOS ANGELES AND VENTURA

COUNTIES…TOTALS SHOULD RANGE BETWEEN 0.25 AND 0.50 INCHES…WITH

LOCAL AMOUNTS UP TO 1.00 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS.

LIGHT TO MODERATE PEAK RAINFALL INTENSITIES OF 0.25 TO 0.33 INCHES

PER HOUR ARE LIKELY.

SNOW LEVELS WITH THE BAND SHOULD BE JUST OVER 5000 FEET…BUT ANY

SHOWERS BEHIND THE FRONT COULD BRING A DUSTING OF SNOW DOWN TO

AROUND 4500 FEET. SNOW AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES ARE EXPECTED

AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 5500 FEET…WITH ISOLATED AMOUNTS TO 6 INCHES

POSSIBLE. AT THIS TIME…NOT ANTICIPATING ANY TRAVEL ISSUES OVER THE

INTERSTATE 5 CORRIDOR TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY NIGHT. THERE COULD BE A

FEW SNOW FLURRIES BY TUESDAY EVENING…BUT NOT ENOUGH TO CAUSE ANY

ROAD CLOSURES.

GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL ALSO IMPACT MUCH OF THE AREA…ESPECIALLY

INTERIOR SECTIONS WHERE GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WILL BE

COMMON…WITH ISOLATED GUSTS TO 50 MPH ACROSS FAVORED MOUNTAIN

LOCATIONS.

THIS STORM SHOULD BRING LOCALIZED PONDING OF WATER ON LOW LYING

STREETS AND HIGHWAYS DUE TO CLOGGED DRAINS. WET OIL SLICKED ROADS

DUE TO THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IN A WHILE WILL IMPACT THE

MORNING AND AFTERNOON COMMUTES. THE THREAT OF DEBRIS FLOWS OVER THE

RECENT BURN AREAS IS LOW…BUT SHOULD BE MONITORED AS WE APPROACH

THIS EVENT.

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