LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The early December dry spell is expected to end next week, when a series of weather systems move over the region.

The National Weather Service’s Eureka office said wetter weather will finally return starting on Monday.

The forecast calls for light to moderate rain and wind along the North Coast early next week.

Forecasters said they expect weather systems that will bring rain will pass through the region on Monday and Tuesday, with a break on Wednesday, followed by another incoming weather system on either Thursday or Friday.

The specific Lake County forecast calls for rain beginning on Monday night and continuing throughout the week. 

Daytime temperatures next week will range into the low 60s, with nighttime temperatures in the low 40s.

While December has so far been dry in Lake County, the National Weather Service’s Eureka office said overall temperatures and rainfall for November were above normal.

It offered the following November rainfall numbers for Lake County:

• Clearlake, 4.9 inches, 170% of normal.
• Clearlake Oaks, 3.29 inches, 125% of normal. 
• Lakeport, 3.78 inches, 144% of normal.
• Upper Lake, 6.25 inches, 147% of normal.

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