East County Gets More Rain Than the Coast

In a switch from usual weather patterns, eastern Ventura County saw more rain Wednesday than coastal regions or the mountains.

Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks both picked up more than an inch of precipitation. By contrast, Port Hueneme saw only 0.04 inch and the Upper Ojai only 0.39 inch.

“The heaviest rain has been in L.A. County right along the foothills . . . and Ventura County has been getting in on some of that too,” said Rob Krohn, National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard.

“It’s been confined to the foothills; it’s kind of a peculiar thing.”

Showers remain in the forecast through Friday, although the chance of precipitation will gradually decrease as a slow-moving low-pressure system, which brought the rain, moves east, according to the Weather Service.

Temperatures, which have been about 10 degrees below normal in recent days, should gradually warm by Friday as well.

For today though, highs will remain in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Lows will range from 45 to 55 degrees.

Despite the gradual drying and warming trend, skies are expected to remain partly cloudy through the weekend.

“I don’t think it will be a great beach weekend, although Sunday will be OK,” Krohn said.

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County Rainfall

Here are rainfall figures from the Ventura County Flood Control Department for the 24-hour period ending at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Oct. 1 is the beginning of the official rain year.

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Rainfall Rainfall Normal rainfall Location last 24 hours since Oct. 1 to date Camarillo 0.67 9.95 10.56 Casitas Dam 0.47 16.87 18.60 Casitas Rec. Center 0.63 15.83 18.79 Fillmore 0.87 14.43 15.10 Matilija Dam 0.28 19.52 21.31 Moorpark 0.71 11.90 11.52 Upper Ojai 0.39 14.73 18.36 Oxnard 0.39 10.59 11.53 Piru 0.59 11.41 13.50 Port Hueneme 0.04 8.15 11.22 Santa Paula 0.67 13.05 14.16 Simi Valley 1.38 11.90 11.21 Thousand Oaks 1.14 12.16 12.05 Ventura Govt. Center 0.28 12.04 12.80

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