Southern California is bracing for its first significant winter rain, raising concerns about flooding and landslides in areas recently scorched by wildfires. Forecasters warn of a 10% to 20% chance of flash flooding and debris flows, particularly in the burn scars of the Palisades, Franklin, Eaton, Hughes, and Bridge fires. The threat is heightened because wildfire-damaged soil absorbs water poorly, increasing the risk of runoff and mudflows.
Areas recently burned by wildfires in Los Angeles County are at some risk for flooding and landslides as Southern California prepares this weekend for its first significant rain of the winter. 'The threat is high enough to prepare for the worst-case scenario,' the National Weather Service office in Oxnard said on social media.
Between Saturday and Monday, Thousand Oaks and Oxnard could get three-fifths of an inch of rain; Redondo Beach, Santa Clarita and Fillmore, seven-tenths of an inch; Long Beach, four-fifths of an inch; and downtown Los Angeles and Covina, nine-tenths of an inch. If the storm produces rain on the higher end of estimates, from 1 to 1.5 inches of rain could fall in Orange County, Ontario, Riverside, Lake Elsinore, Temecula and coastal northern San Diego County. From 0.
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