Heavier rainfall will spread southward after midnight and continue into Thursday morning. It will become more showery for Thursday afternoon and evening with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Through Thursday night, rainfall is expected to range from around one inch near the coast to 2 to 3 inches in the mountains with local amounts to around 4 inches on the coastal slopes of the San Bernardino County mountains with one-half to one inch for the Apple and Lucerne Valleys and one-quarter inch or less for the lower deserts.
Scattered showers through this evening. A band of moderate to heavy rain will move across the area between about 3 AM and 9 AM Thursday. Flooding of roadways and increasing flows in rivers and small streams likely.