TEAM COVERAGE: Winter storms bring flooding to SoCal
A rare Southern California storms have left parts of the region flooded.
Late Wednesday night, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties were under flash flood warnings and that remained in effect through 12:30 a.m. Thursday. After the warnings expire, those two counties will return to flash flood watches.
As for Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo counties, those counties have been under flash flood watches since Tuesday night and is expected to stay that way through 4 a.m. Friday, December 22. The watch is set to raise awareness for possible flooding of roads, creeks and streams.
Forecasters estimated that much of the Los Angeles area could receive 2 to 4 inches of rain during the “atmospheric river” event accompanying the second storm system, with 4 to 8 inches possible on south-facing foothill areas and coastal slopes. Rainfall rates of 0.3 to 0.6 inches per hour are expected in some areas, but if thunderstorms develop, some areas could see rain falling at a rate of 1 inch per hour.
By Wednesday evening 1.16 inches of rain was reported in Culver City, 1.68 inches in Northridge and 0.90 in Fillmore.
Conditions are expected to dry out on Friday, although gusting northwest winds are expected to linger into Saturday.
City News Service contributed to this report
