Arizona is supposed to get it next week and the week after. They have said anywhere between 1-5 inches of rain next week.
We’ll see.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1253 PM PST THU JAN 14 2010
BIG CHANGES IN THE WEATHER NEXT WEEK...
MAJOR CHANGES ARE EXPECTED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA WEATHER
AFTER THIS WEEKEND. A SERIES OF STORMS WILL BRING CLOUDS...
COOLING...WIND...AND PERIODS OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN NEXT WEEK WITH
SNOW AT THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS.
THERE IS STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE EXACT TIMING AND
RAINFALL AMOUNTS...BUT THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BE QUITE
VIGOROUS...AND BRING LARGE RAINFALL TOTALS TO THE LOWER ELEVATIONS
AND HEAVY SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS.
THIS ALL WEEK LONG EVENT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE RAINFALL OF 4
TO 8 INCHES NEAR THE COAST...TO 20 OR MORE INCHES ON THE COASTAL
MOUNTAIN SLOPES. TYPICALLY WETTER LOCATIONS ON THE COASTAL MOUNTAINS
SLOPES COULD RECEIVE 30 OR MORE INCHES OF RAINFALL. EVEN THE DESERT
LOCATIONS ARE LIKELY TO RECEIVE SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN.
SNOW LEVELS WILL MOSTLY FLUCTUATE BETWEEN 5500 AND 6500 FEET WHICH
WOULD CONFINE HEAVY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO MAINLY THE HIGHER
ELEVATIONS IN THE SAN BERNARDINO AND SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS. UP TO
AROUND 4 FEET OF SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE AT THE HEAVIEST LOCATIONS.
IF RAIN DEVELOPS AS EXPECTED THEN THERE WILL BE A POTENTIAL
OF FLASH FLOODING...MUD AND DEBRIS FLOW...ESPECIALLY IN AND BELOW
RECENTLY BURNED AREAS. THE RAIN WILL MAKE ROADS SLICK AND TRAVEL
THROUGH THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS COULD BECOME
HAZARDOUS DUE TO SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW. HEAVY SNOW COULD ALSO CREATE
AN AVALANCHE THREAT FOR AREAS LOCATED BELOW STEEP SLOPES OF THE
HIGHER SAN BERNARDINO AND SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS.
Last night, our local Coachella Valley weather guy said we could be well over 3 inches next week....that hasn’t happened since the series of post-Christmas storms of ‘03 or ‘04.