As California faces its earliest winter weather warning since 2007, a spate of cooling weather trends have struck the state, including Santa Clarita.
The National Weather Service (NWS) in the Hanford, California office issued a winter weather advisory on Friday. The advisory will affect areas of Northern California and is expected to last through Monday.
The warning is the earliest winter weather advisory in two decades for the high Sierra, and the broader weather phenomenon has stretched into the Santa Clarita area, with a low-pressure system keeping things cool for the rest of the week.
Over the last several years, California has faced several out-of-the-ordinary weather shifts during the fall and winter months. The 2020-2021 season was incredibly dry, with less than an inch-and-a-half of rain in the wettest month.
In 2021-2022, most of the rain for the year came down in December, with more than 6.2 inches of the approximately 8-inch total coming in December storms.
The last two years have been incredibly moist, with around 20 inches of rain coming down in the Santa Clarita Area in the 2022-2023 and the 2023-2024 seasons. The most recent rain season was especially strange weather-wise, as Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in September 2023.