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Get the Hemet, CA local weather forecast by the hour ... after surviving 48 hours in California mountains. ... historic winter storm that brought snow and plunging temperatures to the region.
Hemet was named by the land development company that founded the town, The Lake Hemet Land Company. The company drew its name from Hemet Valley, now called Garner Valley, located in the San Jacinto Mountains. Initially, the company referred to the area as South San Jacinto, but changed the name to Hemet when the land company filed a plat map on ...
The river is formed at the west base of the San Jacinto Mountains by the confluence of its North and South forks. The South Fork flows from near Santa Rosa Summit, through Pine Meadow and Garner Valley to Lake Hemet, which holds 14,000 acre-feet (17,000,000 m 3) of water. Hemet Dam was built in 1895 to supply water to the city of Hemet.
Get the Hemet, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, like the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fires, are burning ...
Hemet was founded in 1887 and was incorporated on January 20, 1910. The city is home to the Ramona Bowl which is where "Ramona", the official outdoor play of California, is performed. Hemet is located at the southern end of the valley. The city is home to the Western Science Center, and Diamond Valley Lake.
A landscape of the Lakeview Mountains with a distant view of the San Bernardino Mountains The highest point in the Lakeview Mountains is at elevation 2,673 feet (815 m) above mean sea level. Mount Rudolph, a prominent feature at the northerly end of the range, rises to an elevation of 2,595 ft (791 m).
The Fairview fire, which has killed two people, has burned nearly 20,000 acres and remained 5% contained late Wednesday night.
Diamond Valley Lake is a man-made off-stream reservoir located near Hemet, California, United States. It is one of the largest reservoirs in Southern California and one of the newest. It has a capacity of 800,000 acre-feet (990,000,000 m 3). The lake nearly doubled the area's surface water storage capacity and provides additional water supplies ...