National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

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.
A snow level around 6000 feet will lower to around 4000 feet by Thursday afternoon and to around 3000 to 3500 feet during Thursday evening. Heavier snowfall will develop southward after midnight and continue through Thursday. Snowfall of 4 to 8 inches is expected from 5000 to 6000 feet, 8 to 14 inches from 6000 to 7000 feet with local amounts of 2 feet or more on the higher peaks above 8500 feet.
South to southwest winds will strengthen into early Thursday morning. The winds will become westerly on Thursday morning. The strongest winds are expected to be strongest on Thursday afternoon with gusts of 30 to 40 mph for the coast and valleys, 45 to 55 mph for the mountains and deserts with isolated gusts to 70 mph along the desert slopes of the mountains.

 

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