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Here's How Much Rain and Snow This Storm Dumped on San Diego

Here are the totals as of 5 a.m. Tuesday

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Another multi-day storm soaked San Diego County to start this week. Thankfully, this one didn't bring surging tides and destructive winds along with it -- but it did bring snow.

That means instead of counting toppled trees and calculating damage to city infrastructure, we can just focus on how much water fell from the sky.

First, let’s look at our snowfall accumulations as of 5 a.m. Tuesday. Note the NWS said more updated snowfall reports may be available throughout the day:

Snowfall Totals:

  • Palomar Birch Hill: 5.5 inches (5,700 feet)
  • Palomar Mountain: 3.5 inches (5,500 feet)
  • Laguna Lodge: 1 inch (6,700 feet)
San Diego’s winter storm made for a snow day in the county’s mountains. NBC 7’s Nicole Gomez speaks to visitors in Mount Laguna.

Rainfall Totals:

Here's a breakdown of two-day rainfall totals (as of 5 a.m. Tuesday) in coastal, valley and mountain communities, according to the National Weather Service in San Diego:

At the Coast

  • Carlsbad: .69 inches
  • El Camino Del Norte: .67 inches
  • Encinitas: .66 inches
  • San Marcos: .56 inches
  • Brown Field: .84 inches
  • Vista: .53 inches
  • Las Flores: .5 inches
  • Point Loma: .6 inches
  • National City: .66 inches
  • Oceanside: .38 inches
"The soil system certainly is primed right now because it's been wetted to near saturation," research climatologist Dan Cayan told NBC 7's Brooke Martell.

In the Valleys

  • Escondido: .77 inches
  • Deer Springs: .67 inches
  • Ramona: .63 inches
  • Valley Center: .59 inches
  • Barona: .58 inches
  • Rancho Bernardo: .54 inches
  • Bonsall: .52 inches
  • Santee: .55 inches
  • Skyline Ranch: .51 inches
  • Harbison Canyon: .59 inches

In the Mountains

  • Tierra Del Sol: 1.09 inches
  • Julian: 1.12 inches
  • Lake Cuyamaca: 1.07 inches
  • Pine Hills: .93 inches
  • Henshaw Dam: .77 inches
  • Descanso: .71 inches
  • Ranchita: .64 inches
  • Palomar: .65 inches
  • Campo: .55 inches
  • Santa Ysabel: .48 inches

And the Deserts

  • Ocotillo Wells: .46 inches
  • Agua Caliente: .42 inches
  • Borrego Springs: .16 inches

San Diego has fared well this rainy season, NWS records show.

From Oct. 1, 2022, to Jan. 30, 2023, 7.54 inches of rain were measured at the San Diego Airport, which the NWS calculates as 156% of normal rainfall estimates for that time period. The Ramona Airport measured 12.61 inches of rain in the same period, which the NWS says is 187% of the normal amount, and at the Oceanside Airport, 9.61 inches was good for 170% of the normal total.

Rain could continue Tuesday morning, but the afternoon and Wednesday are expected to be dry and sunny. Temperatures should cool to close the week, however, according to NBC 7 meteorologist Dagmar Midcap.

SkyRanger 7 captured fresh snow on San Diego's mountains.
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