A very cold low pressure system brought unusually heavy snow to low elevations in the Mojave Desert.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.
A very cold low pressure system brought unusually heavy snow to low elevations in the Mojave Desert.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow, 1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Twelve inches of snow fell two miles north of Yucca Valley, and heavy snow fell over the entire Morongo Basin. Portions of Highway 247 and Highway 62 were closed for a time due to snow and ice.
Interstate 15 was closed from Baker to the Nevada state line due to snowy conditions.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2019
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 805453, 805454.