Another storm pounds Los Angeles County, triggering flood watch and fears of mudslides
LOS ANGELES — Southern California is on watch for potential mudslides, debris flows and flooding this week as yet another storm hit a region already waterlogged by weeks of heavy rain. As of Tuesday afternoon, downtown Los Angeles has received about 17.5 inches of rain since the water year began on Oct. 1 and around 12 inches just during February. That’s almost 3 inches more than the area’s ...
LOS ANGELES — Southern California is on watch for potential mudslides, debris flows and flooding this week as yet another storm hit a region already waterlogged by weeks of heavy rain.
As of Tuesday afternoon, downtown Los Angeles has received about 17.5 inches of rain since the water year began on Oct. 1 and around 12 inches just during February. That’s almost 3 inches more than the area’s average for a full year, and 8 inches more than it typically gets by this point in the water year.
“This is one of the wetter Februarys on record,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard. “It’s been
