It was freezing this morning. My car doors were frozen shut until I pried them open. Clouds are beginning to appear on the horizon. Below is an early morning National Weather Service forecast and the rain totals for the nearby localities. Idyllwild received almost 1.75 inches of rain.
Winter Storm Warning
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
320 AM PST TUE JAN 19 2010
...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS
ABOVE 6500 FEET FOR LATE MORNING
THROUGH EARLY EVENING...
.THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF PACIFIC STORMS
WILL BRING A PERIOD OF HEAVY SNOWFALL ABOVE
6500 FEET FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH
EARLY THIS EVENING.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM
NOON TODAY TO 8 PM PST THIS EVENING ABOVE 6500 FEET...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN DIEGO
HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING ABOVE 6500 FEET
FOR HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ...WHICH IS
IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM PST THIS EVENING.
* TIMING: SNOW IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE BY
EARLY AFTERNOON WITH SNOWFALL HEAVY
AT TIMES IN THE AFTERNOON.
* TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: SNOWFALL OF
6 TO 10 INCHES ABOVE 6500 FEET.
* WINDS: SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH.
* SNOW LEVELS: AROUND 6000 FEET.
* IMPACTS: HEAVY SNOWFALL AND NEAR ZERO VISIBILITY
IN FOG AND BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL
CAUSE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS.
Rainfall RIVERSIDE COUNTY VALLEYS-THE INLAND EMPIRE-
745 PM PST MON JAN 18 2010
RIVERSIDE AIRPORT 1.09
RIVERSIDE - MARCH ARB 0.82
BEAUMONT 0.88 MENIFEE VALLEY 0.88
HEMET 1.17 HEMET VALLE VISTA 0.87
WILDOMAR 1.00 TEMECULA 1.33
RIVERSIDE COUNTY MOUNTAINS-
745 PM PST MON JAN 18 2010
CHERRY VALLEY 1.01
VISTA GRANDE 1.07
IDYLLWILD 1.73
GARNER VALLEY 1.31
ANZA RAWS 1.24
PINYON PINES RAWS 1.80
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