Minor Storm Drops Half an Inch of Rain
A winter storm is expected to dump more rain on the county today, in the wake of a minor storm that dropped up to half an inch of precipitation over the weekend, forecasters said Monday.
“There’s a humongous storm coming,” said Terry Schaeffer, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Santa Paula. “I’m predicting one to two inches out of this one.”
The rainy weather could last through early Thursday, forecasters said.
Rex Laird, executive director of the Ventura County Farm Bureau, said the wet weather “is probably what people asked for at Christmas. It has not been in amounts that has created damage, it has not hampered any crops, and we desperately need the rain.”
Sunday’s rainfall was a weak subtropical storm, but today’s is expected to affect most of the state, especially the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California, Schaeffer said.
“They’ll be measuring snow in feet, not inches,” he said.
By late Thursday and into Friday, the precipitation will be gone but clouds will remain, Schaeffer said.
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