INLAND EMPIRE METRO: Clearing and becoming mostly sunny through Monday. Weekend highs in the 70s with overnight lows in the 50s. Warmer neat week with highs in the 80s.

MOUNTAINS: Winds subsiding becoming mostly sunny and warmer through Monday. Resort-level highs in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s Sunday.

DESERTS: Wind advisory discontinued. Sunny through Monday with a warming trend. Highs in the 70s and 80s to near 90 in the Coachella Valley.

BEACHES: Mostly sunny except form some overnight and morning low clouds. Highs through Monday in the mid 60s. Advisory for High Surf of 3-7 feet. Water 55-67.


SUMMARY: Desert residents will have a chance to catch their breath after spring’s fiercest winds blasted the Coachella Valley Friday. As the blinding dust and stinging sand subside, roads leading in and out of Palm Springs are opening.

The usual mountain and desert locations were pummeled by gusts to 75 miles an hour at Whitewater and 59 mph in Palm Springs. Gale-force zephyrs occurred in most desert locations Friday. Wind advisories have since been lifted. Friday’s showers were – again – confined mostly to higher territory, up to .43 of an inch in the San Jacinto Mountains.

The low pressure axis that brought Friday’s action has moved out. Clearing will accelerate Sunday putting temperatures on the rebound. Stubborn low clouds will cling to the coast at night.