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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.

Earlier this year, the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) completed work on a small bypass pipeline at San Vicente Dam, near Lakeside California, and a marina at the reservoir formed by the dam. Although relatively minor projects in their own right, their completion effectively brings to a close a massive effort spanning decades to ensure that the San Diego region maintains access to adequate water supplies in the event of an earthquake or other emergency, including severe drought.