LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The rain-weary Southland should get dry weather Wednesday with an occasional stray shower, but forecasters predicted more stormy weather will hit the area on Thursday.
“Another storm will bring rain to the area Thursday into Friday morning,” said the National Weather Service. “The trajectory for this one is a little more inland but most of the models have it cutting off near San Nicolas Island Friday morning which could maintain shower chances at least through midday Friday before it moves south of the MX (Mexican) border.”
The unsettled weather continues to circulate over the region, but forecasters said the area is due for a brief respite on Wednesday before the next storm arrives.
The upper low-pressure system lingering over the region is expected to create “little pop-up showers and possibly isolated storms,” according to the NWS.
The snow level will be between 5,000 and 6,000 feet and a few inches of snow accumulation are possible. At the very least it will be a very cool day with highs in the high 50s or low 60s.
Rain again doused much of the Southland Monday and Tuesday, following an already wet two days that dampened most of the weekend.
In the past five days, according to the NWS, downtown Los Angeles received 3.47 inches of rain, East Pasadena received 4.43 inches of rain and Mt. Baldy received 6.58 inches of rain.
In the 24-hour period that ended at 9 p.m. Monday saw roughly 1.5 inches of rain fall in Porter Ranch, Northridge and La Canada Flintridge, while some mountain areas got about 2 inches. About three-quarters of an inch fell in downtown Los Angeles, but more than an inch fell in Bel Air and Beverly Hills, said the NWS.
“There remains a range of outcomes in terms of rain amounts, intensities, and impacts,” according to the NWS. “While this storm will not be nearly as wet as the storm we had this weekend, as mentioned before, it will take less rain than usual to get significant runoff and impacts.”
The NWS indicated that a half-inch to an inch of rain could fall in most areas between Thursday and Friday, with 1 to 2 inches possible in the mountains and foothills.
“There are still about 30% of the projections that favor double those amounts, which includes some of the AI models that have shown some skill with the recent storms,” forecasters said. “The vast majority of our projections show a big change in the weather starting this weekend, with drier and warmer conditions through the Thanksgiving holiday week.”
Tuesday’s high temperatures are forecast by the weather service to be around 60 from the beaches to downtown Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, the mid-50s to around 60 in the San Gabriel Valley, the mid-50s in the Santa Clarita Valley and the mid-40s to lower-50s in the Antelope Valley.
Monday’s rain caused a landslide in the Santa Clarita Valley, mudslides in Malibu and multiple reports of flooding on the Golden State (5) Freeway, near the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway and northward, the weather service reported.
The storms are expected to come to an end fairly soon and dry and warmer weather is expected over the weekend into next week.
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