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Weekend cold snap is in store for Southland

Posted by: Maven on December 12, 2008 at 1:16 pm

From the Los Angeles Times:

Southern Californians can probably go straight from sunglasses to ski goggles this weekend, as the nastiest chill in a while is expected to blast through the unusually mild autumn weather.

The storm will probably bring rain and snow at the beginning of next week, with snow possibly covering the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains down to 2,000 feet in elevation, according to the National Weather Service.

“This is going to be our first whopper snowstorm of the season,” said William Patzert, a climatologist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. “You get one of these every five to 10 years.”

This storm marks the end of a strangely cool summer and an unusually warm autumn. Temperatures have been running about four degrees above normal in the last three months because of dry, warm Santa Ana conditions from the Southwest, Patzert said. Temperatures could drop 20 degrees in a few days, he said.

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December 12, 2008 · Filed Under Drought, Weather & Snowpack

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