COUNTYWIDE : Cloudy but Rainless Skies Are Expected

A new weather front is poised to move into Ventura County this weekend, but it is not expected to pack much of a punch, a weather forecaster said Friday.

Terry Schaeffer, an agricultural meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Santa Paula, said clouds will shroud the county through Sunday morning, but “it’s a weak storm system that won’t produce any rain.”

Highs are expected to be in the upper 60s to mid-70s during the weekend.

The county is just beginning to dry out from the showers that another storm brought to the area earlier this week.

The slow-moving weather front that moved in from the Pacific on Thursday sprinkled parts of the county with about half an inch of rain, most of it in the eastern and inland areas.

Simi Valley got the most out of the storm with 0.85 of an inch of rain.

Although eastern Ventura County remained under cloud cover Friday, “this one’s basically over,” Schaeffer said.

County Rainfall

Here are rain statistics from 8 a.m. Thursday until 3 p.m. Friday from the Ventura County Flood Control District. Rainfall since Oct. 1, the start of the official rain year, is an estimate based on computer updates.

Rainfall Normal Storm since rainfall Location total Oct. 1 to date Camarillo .32 19.16 11.63 Casitas Dam .68 28.77 20.23 El Rio .19 19.24 13.17 Fillmore .55 26.35 16.49 Moorpark .40 20.65 12.67 Ojai .22 26.75 18.40 Upper Ojai .18 33.17 20.06 Oxnard .18 18.80 12.60 Piru .64 26.43 14.82 Port Hueneme .18 17.84 12.15 Santa Paula .30 26.53 15.46 Simi Valley .85 24.43 12.38 Thousand Oaks .51 24.99 13.22 Ventura Govt. Center .22 19.97 14.04