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Heavy Snow in San Diego County Mountains, California

Heavy Snow January 26, 2025 – January 27, 2025 · San Diego County Mountains, California

What the National Weather Service wrote

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

The wider storm

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 1232769. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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