It’s ramping up to be a big weekend of precipitation, as a storm system brings heavy snow to the Sierra and rain to drought-parched Southern California.There was intense rain overnight. “And after this first round of rain ... some shower activity is possible through Sunday, and then possibly into Monday as well,” Kristen Stewart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, said Saturday.
A winter storm warning is in effect through Monday afternoon for the interior mountain areas of Ventura, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties, where 8 to 16 inches of snow is expected to accumulate above 7,000 feet.
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