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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The National Weather Service said a cold, fast-moving storm system is set to arrive on Tuesday, bringing rain plus mountain snow.
The agency’s Sacramento office reported that a band of rain is expected to spread over the region from late Tuesday through early Wednesday.
The heaviest precipitation is expected early Wednesday morning.
The National Weather Service’s storm models show rain arriving in Lake County on Tuesday night and clearing before 1 a.m. Wednesday.
Rain amounts across Lake County are forecast to average between a tenth of an inch and a quarter of an inch on Tuesday night.
Wind gusts ranging between 20 miles per hour – in parts of the county including Lakeport and Cobb – and 34 miles per hour in the mountains north of Upper Lake area also are forecast.
The forecast said Lake County’s higher elevations such as near Alder Springs, north of Upper Lake, also could see a new snow accumulation of less than a half an inch.
Conditions on Wednesday through Friday are forecast to be clear and sunny, with mostly clear conditions through the weekend.
The forecast for Christmas day so far calls for mostly sunny conditions.
Temperatures this week are expected to fall. Daytime temperatures will range as high as the high 50s, but nighttime conditions to drop into the low 20s.
The coldest nighttime temperatures of the week are forecast in the Lakeport area, where temperatures are expected to drop to the low 20s at night on Wednesday, rising to the high 20s later in the week.
Email Elizabeth Larson at elarson@lakeconews.com. Follow her on Twitter, @ERLarson, or Lake County News, @LakeCoNews.
