Rainy Weather Heads into Los Angeles

A heavy band of rain moved across Ventura County and into the Malibu and Agoura Hills area at midmorning today, and promised to bring heavy rain to the rest of Los Angeles County by midday.
   At 10:10 a.m., the National Weather Service issued an urban stream
flooding advisory for the Conejo Valley and Malibu. "Doppler radar indicated a
slow-moving, moderate band of rain over eastern Ventura County and the very-
western portion of Los Angeles County, including Agoura Hills and Malibu.
   "Rainfall rates over Malibu were around one half inch per hour,'' the
NWS office in Oxnard said. It predicted widespread ponding and intersection
flooding as the band of rain moved east into Los Angeles.
   Steady rain may last for 3-5 hours, then taper off in the afternoon,
according to the NWS. And the Auto Club 400 race in Fontana may start at 12:15 just before the heaviest rains arrive.
   "We've got a pretty narrow frontal band,'' said NWS Meteorologist Dave
Bruno. "It'll probably rain for 3-5 hours, stop, then start up again in the
afternoon.''
   Winds will be out of the southeast at 15-25 mph, and temperatures will
top out around 60 degrees.
   Thunderstorms are possible after the low-pressure front passes, and the
Los Angeles Basin should get a half-inch to an inch of rain by the time the
storm moves east. The seasonal total dating from July 1 is 5.98 inches, about
45 percent of normal for this time of year, which is 13.29 inches, Bruno said.
   "Hopefully, we'll make up for some of that today,'' he said. "But as
far as the season goes, it's not looking great.''
   Los Angeles typically gets about 15 inches of rain per year, most of it
December-March.
   The higher the elevation, the higher the rainfall amounts, Bruno said.
Some of the south-facing San Gabriel Mountain foothills could get up to 2
inches of rain.
   Eight to 15 inches of snow is expected at elevations of about 6,000 feet
or more, and that should add a few days to Southern California's
foreshortened skiing and snowboarding season due to a lack of snow. Some snow
should fall at elevations as low as about 4,500 feet.
   Monday should be dry and mostly sunny, with highs in the upper 60s.

— City News Service

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