Cold, blustery day kicks off a month of rain in SLO County. Here’s how much your area got
A cold front blew in strong, northwesterly winds and about a quarter-inch of rainfall across San Luis Obispo County on Thursday morning.
The rainfall ranged from about a 0.10 to 0.25 inches, the heaviest landing in the mountains, before it tapered off in the afternoon, according to a forecast by John Lindsey, meteorologist with PG&E.
Temperatures were in the mid-50s to 60s throughout the Central Coast Thursday, and gusts ranged from 25 to 38 miles per hour with wind expected to pick up in the afternoon, Lindsey wrote.
The Central Coast spot with the most rainfall was Walter Ranch above Cambria, which recorded 0.41 inches of rain, followed by Davis Peak, between Avila Beach and Diablo Canyon, which had 0.28 inches of rain, according to Lindsey’s rainfall totals.
Here’s how much rain your area received as of Thursday at 1 p.m.
- Arroyo Grande: 0.14 inches
- Atascadero: 0.04 inches
- Avila Beach: 0.08 inches
- Baywood Park: 0.09 inches
- Cal Poly: 0.13 inches
- Cambria: 0.08 inches
- Cambria at Walter Ranch: 0.41 inches
- Camp San Luis: 0.08 inches
- Creston: 0.12 inches
- Davis Peak: 0.28 inches
- Diablo Canyon: 0.22 inches
- Guadalupe: 0.11 inches
- Hog Canyon: 0.08 inches
- North Lake Nacimiento: No reading
- Lompoc Airport: 0.16 inches
- Lopez Dam: 0.23 inches
- Los Berros: 0.24 inches
- Los Osos: 0.16 inches
- Morro Bay Canet: 0.23 inches
- Morro Toro: 0.12 inches
- Nipomo East: 0.16 inches
- Nipomo South: 0.08 inches
- Oceano: 0.12 inches
- Pismo Beach: 0.11 inches
- Paso Robles Airport: 0.15 inches
- Point San Luis Lighthouse: 0.12 inches
- Rocky Butte: 0.20 inches
- Salinas Dam (Santa Margarita Lake): 0.08 inches
- San Simeon: 0.04 inches
- Santa Maria Public Airport: 0.14 inches
- Santa Margarita: 0.16 inches
- San Luis Obispo County Airport: 0.05 inches
- San Luis Obispo Reservoir: No reading
- San Simeon: 0.04 inches
- Shandon: 0.12 inches
- Shell Beach: 0.09 inches
- Vandenberg Air Force Base: 0.24 inches
Santa Lucia winds from the northeast are expected to temper the northwestern, gale-force gusts, creating mostly clear skies with biting cold temperatures on Friday and Saturday. The overnight lows will dip to the high 20s in Paso Robles and mid-30s in San Luis Obispo, according to the forecast.
Thursday’s rainfall is kicking off a wet December, Lindsey told The Tribune on Tuesday.
“I would say the long-range models show a series of storms marching across the Pacific into California, right through Christmas,” Lindsey said.
A heavier storm created by gale-force southerly winds is predicted for Monday into Tuesday, creating heavier rainfall and fresh snow in the Sierra Nevada, according to the forecast.
This story was originally published December 9, 2021 at 1:56 PM.
