Wild Weather Continues

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Just when we thought summer was here, what feels like a winter storm comes along and dumps over 1.5" of rain on Claremont yesterday. It's a rare Memorial Day Weekend when we see snow on Ontario Peak on the east side of San Antonio Canyon, but there it was. One week we have 100-degree days, and the next we've got steady rain and high temperature readings in the low-50's.

And that doesn't even include the twin tornados that knocked over 32-ton railroad cars in Moreno Valley Thursday or the flash flooding in Redlands, San Bernardino, and other parts of the Inland Empire. The Daily Bulletin had coverage by Wes Woods II on the unseasonal storm system.

There were no reports of mudslides up in the Big Horn Fire burn area above Mt. Baldy Village, though the fire areas in Sierra Madre had some debris flows.

The Bulletin article said Mt. Baldy got about three inches of snow, and the stormy weather is supposed to continue today:

"This is pretty unusual to have a such a cold low-pressure (system)," said National Weather Service meteorologist Ted Mackechnie in San Diego. "Its flow is bringing moist air off (the) ocean and bringing rain showers west of the mountains and thunderstorms over the desert."

Mackechnie said there was a 40 percent chance of showers continuing today.

A dense fog advisory was predicted until 11 a.m. today in the San Bernardino Mountains, Mackechnie said.

Today's and Sunday's temperatures are expected to be in mid-50 degree range in the morning and increase to the 60s with double-digit winds, according to AccuWeather.com.

At Mt. Baldy Ski Resort on Friday, president Pete Olson said he had been up since 7 a.m. and saw about two to three inches of snow on the parking lot.

"But the ground is so warm, it's melting," Olson said Friday morning. "I was surprised when I woke up this morning. It was all white as far as the eye can see.