A storm that hit an atmospheric river over the Pacific brought rainy days to Southern California, including heavy overnight showers in the region.
Three-day rain totals include nearly 10 inches in Woodland Hills after hours of heavy rain in the San Fernando Valley Friday night and Saturday.
“(The storm) hovered over Los Angeles and Ventura County for several hours last night,” said NBC4 meteorologist Shanna Mendiola.
The rain is expected to ease on Saturday afternoon before scattered showers persist into Sunday. Another storm is expected to hit early next week.
Those were some of the highest rainfall totals in the Los Angeles area as of 4:20 p.m. Saturday. Measurements are in inches.
- Wooded hills: 10.56
- Stunt Ranch: 9.88
- New room: 8.27
- West Fork Heliport: 7.72
- Canada Flintridge: 9.10
- Eagle Rock Reservoir: 7.98
- Pasadena: 7.84
- Sepulveda Canyon and Mulholland Drive: 7.56
- Hansen Dam: 7.10
- Canoga Park: 6.97
- Van Nuys: 6.70
- Agoura Hills: 5.86
- Burbank: 6.67
- Northridge: 5.00
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The storm was brought on by a weather phenomenon that is responsible for some of the wettest and most destructive storms in California. Atmospheric rivers are long columns of moisture above the Pacific Ocean that tend to move through the atmosphere in currents between 250 and 375 miles wide.
The rivers in the sky move an incredible amount of water. An atmospheric river can move an average of 10.5 trillion gallons of water per day.
The strongest atmospheric rivers can move between seven and 25 times more water than the flow of the Mississippi River, which is the second-longest river in North America and whose watershed reaches 32 states, according to the National Park Service. .