The shows could end in Los Angeles on Tuesday after four days of rain – and more rain is possible on Thursday and Friday.
There is a 20% to 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday across Los Angeles County, the National Weather Service said, although sunshine is expected. Thunderstorms will remain a minor threat due to a cold front that has been moved into unstable air on Monday.
On Tuesday, the cold front will move away from LA, but the cold core of the low pressure system will still be there. “This will bring considerable instability to the area with little chance of weather development,” the weather service in Oxnard said.
Temperatures slowed with the recent storm. While the Lag Coast and San Gabriel Valley on Monday reached the mid-60s, thanks to late arrivals, La County’s coastal areas and valleys “struggled to get out of the 50s,” the weather service said.
Wednesday will bring a return with sunny skies, but another storm is expected to hit California on Thursday and continue into Friday.
Thursday’s storm is expected to drop 0.25 to 0.75 inches of rain. That’s on top of the 0.74 inches of rain that fell in The Downtown La during the 24 hours ending at 9 PM Monday. Before that, the weekend storm that started on Friday brought 2.68 inches of rain to the city.
For the 24-hour period ending at 9 PM Monday, Porter Ranch received 1.61 inches; La cañada flintridge, 1.5; NorthRidge, 1.43; Bel-air, 1.21; Castaic, 1.15; Van Nuys, 1.12; and Beverly Hills, 1.11.
Warm Springs Camp, in the mountains overlooking the Santa Clarita Valley, recorded an 18-hour rainfall total of 2.5 inches Monday evening.
The storms have, so far, caused mayhem but no major or life-threatening damage in the newly burnt areas.
Late Monday night, it was reported that the stars and floods on several roads. Interstate 5 near Mourway, between Sylmar and Santa Clarita, experienced flooding Monday afternoon, as did the Offramp on Interstate 91 at Carminita Road. The California Highway Patrol said there is flooding on the 10 Freeway in El Monte and the 605 Freeway at the southern border of Baldwin Park.
The mountain roads were hard hit. Another motorist on the Angels Crest Highway, a road that passes through the San Gabriel mountains, “stuck in the mud, where the southern lane was completely blocked by land slides, according to reports filed with the National Weather Services. Snowplows could not pull the debris because it was too heavy.
Along Highway 101 in the hidden hills, many cars that have been cleaned like roundabouts are crowded around Mureau Road.
Monday afternoon also brought rockslides or pudslies in San Francisquito Canyon Road, a road in the mountains that connects Santa Clarita to the Antelope valley; Part of Kanan Dume Road, which leads to the Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu; and Mulholland Highway south of Calabasas.
Snow levels were around 7,000 meters on Monday but are expected to drop to 5,000 meters on Tuesday. Officials have issued a winter weather advisory for the Eastern San Gabriel Mountains and Northern Ventura County mountains that are set to remain in place Tuesday night. About 2 to 5 inches of snow could fall in the mountains.
“As for the grapevine area, there is a chance of snow showers Tuesday morning as snow levels are low,” the weather service said. The Grapevine is an important transit route along the 5 freeway that connects LA and Santa Clarita through the central valley and the San Francisco Bay Area.
The highest point of the Grapevine Division is the Tejon pass, which peaks at 4,144 feet above sea level. In that area, “some non-accumulating snow is possible,” the weather service said.
