Heavy Snow — San Diego County Mountains, California

2025-01-26 to 2025-01-27 · San Diego County Mountains, California

Event narrative

Palomar Mountain at Birch Hill recorded a total of 10 inches of snow at 5700 feet.

Wider weather episode

The dry weather pattern with 7 Santa Ana wind events in January finally broke and gave way to a cold Pacific storm in late January. This produced widespread precipitation and heavy snowfall in the mountains. There was 6 to 16 inches of new snow in the San Bernardino mountains above 5000 feet. 3 to 6 inches of snow occurred in the San Jacinto mountains January 26-27 and up to 10 inches in Palomar mountain.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1232769. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.