National Weather Service says mountains could get up to 3 inches, with at least 1 inch expected for much of the county as storm moves through on Sunday
A strong, cold Pacific storm is expected to bring significant rain and wind to San Diego County this weekend, mostly on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
Snow is expected to fall at elevations of 4,000 feet or lower by Sunday evening and into Monday, which could impact travel on Interstate 8 in East County. Palomar Mountain could get up to 6 inches and Mount Laguna up to 4 inches.Billing it as a “major” storm, the weather service said the rain should arrive by Saturday night and become more “showery” Sunday afternoon and into Sunday night. Heavier showers could bring a half-inch or more. Some small-stream and urban flooding is possible.
It will be cold, too, continuing the chill that’s settled in recently. High temperatures Thursday were about 5 degrees below the seasonal average throughout the region, with only Borrego Springs and other desert locales approaching 70. That was a far cry from what happened in the county on Dec. 8 in 1938. La Mesa hit 100 that day, which the weather service said was “the entire nation’s highest temperature on record for any day in December.” Escondido reached 96 back then, a record there for the month.
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