Southern California rain totals from the latest atmospheric river storm topped 13 inches in some areas, easily besting the average for the entire month of February.
An atmospheric river that drenched Southern California over the last few days has brought evacuations, mudslides, power outages and road flooding, but it has also generated some eye-popping rainfall totals.
And it's not quite over yet. Forecasters say there's likely to be some lingering showers passing through the region Wednesday night. Rain totals in parts of the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains topped 12 inches as of late Tuesday, including in Bel-Air and Topanga , according to the National Weather Service's latest counts. The rain easily broke daily records on both Sunday and Monday, dumping nearly half the average seasonal precipitation in just two days, according to a weather service analysis. And while no rainfall records were doused Tuesday, downtown Los Angeles did tally a whopping 8.66 inches of rain over a three-day period. That's the second-highest amount of rain in that span in downtown L.A. since the weather service began keeping records in 1877. The tally is bested only by a storm in 1938 that delivered 9.21 inches in three days, said John Dumas, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. The February rainfall average for downtown is 3.80 inches. 'This is about an every 50-year kind of event,' Dumas said. Since Oct. 1, the beginning of the water year, downtown L.A. has reported 15.43 inches of rain. That's 118% of its average annual rainfall. The precipitation it normally gets annually averages 14.25 inches, Dumas said. On Sunday, 4.1 inches of rain fell in downtown L.A., representing the rainiest calendar day the area has seen since Dec. 28, 2004, when 5.5 inches of rain fell. The majority of rain has likely passed, but forecasters said showers will continue to move through Southern California through late Wednesday. From late Monday into early Tuesday, data show a half-inch to 1.5 inches of additional rain fell across the region. Here are the highest rain tallies for select cities across Southern California as of 10 p.m. Tuesday. The totals include rain that began late Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. Los Angeles County Santa Monica Mountains, at the Topanga fire station: 13.48 inchesBel-Air: 13.04 inchesWoodland Hills: 12.62 inchesSan Gabriel Dam: 10.94 inchesPorter Ranch: 10.64 inchesAgoura Hills: 9.40 inchesBeverly Hills: 9.35 inchesAlhambra: 9.06 inchesVan Nuys Airport: 8.79 inchesDowntown Los Angeles: 8.66 inchesPasadena: 8.64 inchesSierra Madre: 8.61 inchesCalabasas: 8.39 inchesCulver City: 8.32 inchesHollywood Reservoir: 8.16 inchesNorthridge: 7.81 inchesNewhall: 7.72 inchesChatsworth Reservoir: 7.53 inchesLa Cañada Flintridge: 7.36 inchesEagle Rock Reservoir: 7.21 inchesSanta Monica: 7.18 inchesCanoga Park: 7.05 inchesLos Angeles International Airport: 5.47 inches Areas with higher elevation saw greater totals as the hills and mountains act as a ramp to push air up and squeeze out the storm's moisture. Meanwhile, cities along the coast recorded some of the lowest totals, with 4.42 inches reported at Leo Carrillo State Park. Santa Barbara and Ventura counties: Matilija Canyon near Ojai: 9.37 inchesThousand Oaks: 7.65 inchesSanta Barbara: 5.43 inchesOjai: 4.48 inchesSanta Barbara Airport: 3.51 inchesOxnard Civic Center: 3.38 inchesCarpinteria: 3.34 inches San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties Lytle Creek: 13.99 inchesSantiago Peak: 9.96 inchesCal State San Bernardino: 8.39 inchesCoto de Caza: 7.40 inchesSan Onofre: 7.28 inchesGarden Grove: 5.44 inchesPrado Dam: 4.74 inchesTimes staff writer Rong-Gong Lin II contributed to this report.
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