Southern California residents still drying off and digging out of the mud — or in some areas, shoveling their way out of the snow — will have to cope with a few more days of rain and snowfall, with the heaviest precipitation expected to begin Tuesday night.
The new, weaker storm will be nothing like this weekend’s downpour, the National Weather Service said.
“Most of the lingering showers will end around noon (Sunday), with partly to mostly cloudy skies prevailing through tonight,” NWS forecasters said of the storm system blowing out of the area.
By Monday night, they said, a wave of low-pressure air passing over the region will bring “periodic waves … with mostly light to moderate precipitation and continued cold weather.”
By Tuesday night, heavy snow in the mountains could return, with more possible through Wednesday.
Much of the region by then is likely to see rain return, but only about a half-inch in most areas. In the mountains, however, communities could see another foot of snow at elevations of 3,500 to 4,500 feet, the NWS said.
All of that new rain and snow could spell trouble for residents still dealing with cleanup from the last series of storms, which left much of the region waterlogged.
“Soils will be saturated, so there could be some risk of minor flooding,” the NWS said.
Days of rain, hail and snow added up to an already “impressive” series of storms, as described by NWS forecasters, with snow totals measuring in feet, not inches. The highest elevation areas of communities like Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains and Running Springs in the San Bernardino Mountains were buried under 6 to 8 feet of snow over the weekend.
Rain totals across metropolitan areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties and the Inland Empire, which topped 10 inches in some foothill communities, led to flooding on city streets. With the ground saturated, strong winds easily toppled trees around the region.
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