Record rainfall recorded as storm pounds Southern California

New daily rainfall records were set from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles on Wednesday as a storm blew across Southern California, forecasters said.

As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, downtown Los Angeles had received 0.37 of an inch of rain, breaking a previous record of 0.22 of an inch set in 1916, the National Weather Service said.

At Los Angeles International Airport, 0.43 of an inch of rain fell. That broke a 1945 record of 0.16 of an inch, the weather service said. Woodland Hills recorded 0.29 of an inch of rain, which topped a total of 0.13 of an inch set in 1985.

In Ventura County, Oxnard recorded 0.45 of an inch of rain, topping the 1966 record of 0.02 of an inch, according to the weather service. Santa Barbara Airport in Goleta had received 0.61 of an inch of rain, breaking a record of 0.33 of an inch registered in 1960.

The weather service said the storm was expected to move out of the region Thursday and give way to a high-pressure system that will bring warm temperatures and a possibility of dry winds. The warmest areas will be in the 90s.

--Robert J. Lopez

Comments

[the truth]

that was a storm?

[Eric of Reseda]

Global warming? What Global warming? Conservatives tell me that it's NORMAL to truck snow into Vancouver, for Russia to face unprecedented, catastrophic fires from record heat, for record flooding to hit Iowa, Wisconsin, Tennessee, etc., record heat one week in LA...followed by record rain. SO, like we've been doing for a couple hundred years, let's keep pumping TRILLIONS of tons of pollutants into the air, water and soil, and keep burning, burning, burning that coal and all that gas for all our cars. One good thing: All that above ground nuclear bomb testing that sent all that heat into the atmosphere (funny how no one talks about that) is pretty much over, so that helps a little.

[Reality]

Really? Less than an inch of rain is pounding? How about some actual reporting?

[Raton]

Ooooh, those bad "conservatives"....
How about the fact that we've added 2 billion people to the planet in the last few decades, and of course we want them to live in the modern industrialized world? Maybe Lee Ving of Fear had a point with his lyrics in "Let's Have a War" ("There's too many of us, There's too many of us, There's too many of us...").

The most responsible thing we can do for our planet is reduce the population back down to under 4 billion. ;-)

[AKV]

Hahah, man I miss L.A.! I moved to India in 2003 and have experienced the monsoon every year and on Sunday night/Monday morning we received 71.29 inches and that's not even a record! Yes, you read that right, 71.29 INCHES in a few hours!

[John Dingler]

Hello Raton,
You go first.

[Jrwkilleen]

WOW! Less than an inch of rain. Quick...get the Ark built!

How about 10.7 inches of rain in a 24 hour period in Central Texas? That was courtesy of tropical storm Hermine.

[sharon]

Dude @ 9:27 PM: I live in Vancouver. We very rarely get snow here. The snow was trucked into an area that doesn't always have snow in February. Everyone out here couldn't believe that events were scheduled at a place where there's normally not snow at that time of year.

PS On September 19 of this year, we got over an inch and an half of rain in one day. Not a record.

[This Isn't Even Out of Season]

Los Angeles receives a December monthly average rainfall of 2.1 inches, which often falls in downpours, as is typical in a hot semidesert area. This isn't news!

And could the global warming denier clowns knock it off? Or at least until they actually LEARN something about the weather? Global warming might actually increase temperatures in the ocean and bring about more frequent El Niño events, which would increase rainfall, not lower it. Where I live, global warming is expected to result in increased SNOW because of higher temperatures in the Great Lakes.