Mild conditions that gave Southern California a brief break from cold temperatures will soon dissipate as another storm brings more rain to the region to end the work week.
Thursday marks the beginning of another system that will bring chilly temps, inclement weather and mountain snow to the Southland. It’s forecast to be the coldest day of the week before temperatures rise to the lower 70s beginning Sunday.
“This is round three of three, so this is the last one,” NBC4 Meteorologist Shanna Mendiola said. “Lingering chance for Friday, as well, and then we’ve got a dry weekend overall with your holiday looking dry and mild.”
According to Mendiola, the incoming storm will be short-lived, but it is expected to deliver more measurable rain to SoCal before it moves out of the region.
“We’ve got a fast-moving one,” she said. “It’s cold, so that means some snow to the mountains and we’ve got pretty much similar conditions to what we had the other da,y where it just swept from west to east.”
This system will pass with a cold front, which is what will cause frigid conditions across Southern California. Cloud coverage will gradually increase overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning before the rain creeps in.
“It really doesn’t get wet until we get to mid-morning, so that’s when the rain starts moving to Ventura County first, sweeps into LA, then into the Inland Empire and Orange County in scattered fashion,” Mendiola said. “Chance of thunderstorms within this but it is so fast-moving and cold that the snow will start to accumulate in those mountains. It will continue through the evening, so you do look like you have a wet evening commute for tomorrow.”
“And for Friday, you have a continued chance of scattered showers as the moisture wraps around the area of low pressure and continues to slowly make its way out of here,” Mendiola added.
Source: NBC Los Angeles