After a weekend in which two storms moved through Southern California, forecasters said the weather for the coming workweek would be chilly and windy but mostly dry. The Los Angeles area was expected to see temperatures in the mid-60s on Monday, about six degrees cooler than usual for this time of year, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. In the mountains of Los Angeles County, temperatures were forecast to hover in the 40s and 50s, with powerful winds that could reach as high as 60 mph.

Not to the surprise of residents, the City Council said yes to water and wastewater rate increases on Nov. 14. While another year of increases to pay for bought water, pass-through charges, city infrastructure and expansion of local water sources was expected, farmers and seniors asked the city to take another look at their rates. Farmers asked the city to reconsider water rates that make it difficult to maintain farms. They said they have done as much as they can to lower bought water use and use wells, and need a hand.

San Diego County may get more rain Saturday night or Sunday, a National Weather Service meteorologist said. Temperatures in the county on Thanksgiving could be in the mid- to upper 70s before cooling down over the weekend, meteorologist Alex Tardy said. Northern California will see rain over the holiday, in keeping with what has already been a wet fall. Tardy said the region is 100 to 120 percent above normal for rainfall since Oct. 1. That’s in contrast to Southern California, which is below average for rainfall nearly two months into the state’s sixth year of drought.

Wintry weather did a hit-and-run job on Southern California this week, bringing the season’s first notable snowfall to the mountains and leaving behind and a modest amount of havoc Sunday and Monday, before vanishing. In the storm’s wake: more agreeable travel weather heading into the holiday. “It looks like pretty nice weather for Thanksgiving,” said Stephen Harrison, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

A weekend rainstorm that drenched Southern California and triggered hundreds of freeway crashes will disappear by the afternoon and make way for cool, autumn weather on Thanksgiving, the National Weather Service said Monday. Over Sunday and Monday, the storm dumped more than two inches of rain in San Luis Obispo County and more than an inch at Brentwood’s Getty Center in Los Angeles County, where a surge in car crashes left freeways intermittently jammed, authorities said.