LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – After a rainy holiday weekend, Lake County can expect to start the week off with more rain and possibly even some thunderstorms, the National Weather Service reported.

The updated forecast expects more rain on Monday and the rest of the way through the week, with chances of showers lessening by week's end.

Meteorologists also are warning of the potential for thunderstorms Tuesday and Wednesday.

Estimated rainfall totals around the county on Monday range up to about a third of an inch, with as much as an inch on Tuesday.

That follows a weekend of healthy rainfall.

The National Weather Service posted 48-hour rainfall totals for the period ending at approximately 1:39 p.m. Sunday.

For Lake County, the totals from weather stations at the following locations were reported:

– Nine miles north northeast of Witter Springs, 1.78 inches;
– Two miles southwest of Gravelly Valley Airport near Lake Pillsbury, 1.48 inches;
– High Glade Lookout above Upper Lake, 1.43 inches;
– Whispering Pines, 1.36 inches;
– Five miles west northwest of Hough Springs, 1.20 inches;
– Mt. Konocti, 1.20 inches;
– Two miles east northeast of Hidden Valley Lake, 1.17 inches;
– Boggs Mountain, 1.16 inches;
– Cache Creek near Lower Lake, 1.14 inches;
– Lakeport, 1.13 inches;
– Two miles east northeast of Hidden Valley Lake, 1.10 inches;
– Eight miles east northeast of Hidden Valley Lake, 1.02 inches;
– One mile south southwest of Lakeport, 1 inch;
– One mile south southeast of Wilbur Springs, 0.89 of an inch;
– Cow Mountain Ridge, 0.87 of an inch;
– Two miles west southwest of Kelseyville, 0.81 of an inch;
– Three miles south of Indian Valley Reservoir, 0.62 of an inch.
                  
The rainfall gave a boost to Clear Lake's level, bringing it up to -0.58 feet Rumsey late Sunday.

During the last weeks of November, the lake's depth had dipped to about -0.85 feet Rumsey, a low level comparable to those seen in 1976 and 1977, according to US Geological Survey records.

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