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Your SoCal Weather Report For Thursday, Feb 29: Cool And Drizzly Morning
Cooling trend begins as the latest storm system moves in.
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Good morning and Happy Leap Year day! Today's forecast brings cool weather and morning drizzle.
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- Today’s weather: Cool, partly cloudy
- Beaches: 63
- Mountains/deserts: 40s-50s/61-77
- Inland: mid 60s
- Warnings and advisories: None
Patchy fog and drizzle will last until 10 this morning. Later in the day you can expect partly cloudy skies.
Over on the coast temperatures daytime highs will drop slightly, down to an average of 63 degrees at the beaches.
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The valleys and inland areas will be 10 degrees cooler with highs in the mid 60s — 64 degrees in the Inland Empire, 65 degrees in Irvine and 66 degrees in downtown Los Angeles. The high desert will be a couple of degrees cooler with highs in the mid 60s but over in the low desert, Coachella Valley will reach 77 degrees.
Tonight's lows will drop to the 50s.
Upcoming storm forecast
The National Weather Service forecasts light showers to come to the southland Friday night into Saturday morning. The good news is that this system won't bring as much precipitation as the previous storms, meaning we'll see light scattered showers all day Saturday and by Sunday afternoon the storm should be moving out.
Here's an update on the predicted rainfall totals for the southland. As of now models show the storm is expected to drop between a quarter inch to up to an inch of rain between now and Sunday.
Rainfall totals for Central California to L.A. county.
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Rainfall totals for Orange County and the Inland Empire
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This will be a much cooler system with daytime highs in the upper 50s to low 60s, so make sure to bundle up. Snow levels will reach 6,000 feet Saturday and drop to 4,000 feet Sunday.
About 2 to 3 inches of snow is expected in Wrightwood and Big Bear. The Grapevine and the Interstate 5 corridor could see a couple inches of snow.
All eyes are on the Sierra Nevada right now as it's projected that the storm will bring over 10 feet of snow to the region. A blizzard warning has been issued for a stretch of the Sierra Nevada until Sunday morning, from north of Lake Tahoe to south of Yosemite National Park.
This day in history
On this day in 1884, the wettest February in San Diego history ended on this day with 9.05 inches
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