In store: a return to hot weather
Don’t worry about needing that umbrella over the weekend: The light rain that showered Southern California on Thursday soon will be replaced with a days-long warm spell, the National Weather Service said.
The trough of wet weather that soaked L.A. freeways during the morning commute will keep temperatures relatively cool through Saturday, meteorologist Kathy Hoxsie said. Temperatures should remain in the 70s until Sunday, when the region will begin to warm up.
“It’s fall, it’s classic hotand-cold swings,” she said.
Starting Sunday, temperatures will begin to climb and should reach the 80s along the coast and 90s in the inland valleys, Hoxsie said. The fire risk shouldn’t be particularly great across the Southland, she said, as average humidity and low winds are also in the forecast.
Snow fell in the Sierra Nevada on the last day of summer, giving the range a wintry look and making travel hazardous.
Sixteen vehicles crashed on Interstate 80 as snow and hail fell Thursday, killing a man driving a pickup truck and causing a few minor injuries, California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Nave said.
Snow dusted peaks in Yosemite National Park and temporarily closed Tioga Pass Road, which typically doesn’t become impassable until mid-November.
Several inches of snow were expected at elevations of at least 6,000 feet in the northern Sierra, said National Weather Service forecaster Hanna Chandler in Sacramento.
“The last days of summer,” the Placer County Sheriff’s Office wryly tweeted in a post showing snow falling on patrol vehicles at its Lake Tahoe station.