A lot of the places that would normally get flash flooding are at the higher elevations, and since it's so cold, it's snowing. |
August is one of our hottest months. This is not really a heat wave. It's just typical for summer. |
Don't tell anybody, but by Monday you could play in the snow in the mountains. We could see a foot, maybe more, places like Palomar Mountain. The higher elevations could get about three feet of snow by Sunday evening. |
If you get an inch over a period of one or two days in the desert, that's not so bad. But if you get an inch within a couple hours in the desert, that's when you have problems. |
It happens. Everybody thinks it's unusual, but it's not. |
Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time. |
The heavy-type rainfall won't get here until early in the morning. |
The storm fizzled out pretty fast. |
This is a colder storm than we've seen so far this season. |
This is only the second or third time that we've had less than one inch of rain at Lindbergh Field during December, January and February. |
We had a similar system like this - almost exactly to the day - last year. There's nothing unusual or out of the ordinary about it. This weather relates directly to a low-pressure system sitting southwest of us off the coast. It's pumping moisture into the air. |