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High Wind in Santa Cruz Mountains, California
High Wind February 11, 2026 · Santa Cruz Mountains, California
What the National Weather Service wrote
The Los Gatos RAWS reported a wind gust of 66 mph.
The wider storm
A surface cyclone approached the Central Coast on February 10, resulting in the first substantial rainfall in over a month for much of the Bay Area and Central Coast. A Wind Advisory was issued for all of Monterey and San Benito Counties as wind gusts up to 50 mph were expected across the region late on the 10th and into the early morning of the 11th. The orientation of the low favored rainfall for the Santa Cruz and Santa Lucia ranges, where rain totals reached 1-3 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and 2-5 inches in the Santa Lucias.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1308929. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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