An active weather pattern is taking shape over Northern California with off and on rain, snow in the mountains, gusty winds at times and even the potential for localized flooding along with mudslides and debris flows.
The next round of steady moderate to heavy rain along with gusty winds arrives Monday night through Tuesday morning. The valley could pick up about an inch of rain give or take for through Tuesday morning alone and about double that on the coast.
Snow levels will be quite high overnight and will mainly be above 7,000 feet but will most likely lower to as low as 4,500 feet Tuesday morning and may cause travel delays on the higher mountain passes east of I-5.
There will still be some cool and unsettled air in place on Tuesday giving us scattered showers and maybe even a few thunderstorms especially for the Coast and Valley.
We’re dry on Christmas day but there may be some low clouds and fog in some areas before the next round of rain arrives Christmas night into Thursday. Snow levels on Thursday could drop to as low as 3,500 feet and will once again cause travel delays in the mountains. Here is a quick link to the road conditions page at Weather NorCal: https://weathernorcal.com/road-conditions/
We’re keeping it wet Friday and through the weekend with continued off and on rain showers and snow levels around 6,000 feet.
At this point, it looks like a drier trend as we go into next week.
