After a night of wacky weather across the region, skies in Southern California were sunny and back to normal, with the weather expected to stay quiet for the rest of the week

Meteorologists said Wednesday, Feb. 16, that no precipitation was expected for the rest of the week. While temperatures were still fairly cool Wednesday, things were likely to warm up over the next few days, said Joe Dandrea, a National Weather Service meteorologist. The short but powerful storm on Tuesday night that brought lightning, thunder, hail, rain and snow to the area has moved well out of the area, he said.

“It was a very short, fast-moving system that came down from the north and swung through us from 12 to 24 hours,” Dandrea said. “It just kind of came in so fast and it’s like history already.”

There was significant damage reported from the storm, which included some 190 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, with another 165 in clouds across Southern California.

Overnight Tuesday, in the San Bernardino mountains Lake Arrowhead saw about a foot of snow with about 6 inches in Crestline, Dandrea said.

High temperatures on Wednesday by the coast in Los Angeles and Orange counties were in the 60s, but expected to warm up to the 70s on Thursday and the rest of the week, forecasts show. Inland areas could get a little warmer, in the mid-70s to high-70s in some parts of Orange County and the Inland Empire, Dandrea said.

Santa Ana winds were also likely to blow in on Thursday, bringing gusts of up to 55 mph to valleys and mountain areas, said Mike Wofford, another National Weather Service meteorologist.

Next week, there could potentially be more storm activity from Monday to Wednesday, but it was unclear how much, Dandrea said.

“It does look similar, it could be the same kind of thing (as Tuesday’s storm) but perhaps slower moving,” he said.

Short but strong storms like the one on Tuesday are not unusual and typically happen a few times a year, Dandrea said.

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