A storm brought overnight showers and a few showers adding to what has been a historic rainy season for Los Angeles.
The sky cleared by mid-morning, but it is possible that more rain and thunderstorms Thursday afternoon. The cold system that arrived late Tuesday is expected to clear overnight, leaving Los Angeles with cool temperatures and dry conditions through the weekend.
So far this rainy season, downtown Los Angeles has received 26.80 inches of rain. That’s well above the October to March average of 12.90 inches.
Mother Nature put on a spectacular show at the start of a new baseball season in Los Angeles with a double rainbow appearing behind Dodger Stadium on Thursday morning.
Here are the two-day rainfall totals from the most recent storm. The inch figures were updated at 8 a.m. Thursday.
- Topanga: 1.94
- Bel Air: 1.81
- Santa Monica: 1.58
- LAX: 1.48
- City of Culver: 1.33
- Hawthorne: 1.14
- Downtown Los Angeles: 1.10
- Long Range: 1.03
- Porter Ranch: 1.48
- Calabash: 1.34
- Northridge: 1.25
- Canada Flintridge: 1.12
- Pasadena: 1.64
Brief periods of heavy rain are likely in the next storm surge, adding an additional quarter inch to 1 inch of rain before the system retreats.
Total snowfall
Below are the snow totals, in inches, through Thursday at 8 a.m. after two days of rain:
- Mount Pinos (8,500 feet): 2 to 4 inches
- Mountain High (7,000 pies): 6 to 8 pulgadas
- Pine Mountain Club (6,500 feet): 4 inches
- Wrightwood (6,000 feet): 2 inches
- Mount Wilson (5700 feet): 5 inches
- Frazier Park (5,000 feet): 1 inch
California Drought Update
February and March storms, driven by atmospheric rivers as they crossed the Pacific, wiped out the drought in Southern California and much of California.
In this week’s US Drought Monitor update, Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange counties are no longer in the drought category.
However, this is still not enough to alleviate the drought affecting the state.
Statewide, only 28% of California experiences moderate drought. Small parts of the state are in severe drought.
At the start of the water year in late September, nearly 100% of California was in moderate drought and 94% in severe drought.
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