current rainfall totals california los angeles

The National Weather Service (NWS) reported rainfall totals ranging from 3 inches to nearly 10 inches across the region. The latest blast of heavy showers and gusty winds arrived Thursday night and peaked early Friday, sweeping a vast region that is home to some 26 million people, including greater Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay area and metropolitan Sacramento.įlood watches and advisories extended from San Diego and Mexican border to the Shasta-Cascade region of northern California. Residents in the town of Big Bear and nearby mountain enclaves have said their communities were ill-prepared for the severity of winter storms that local authorities called unprecedented for Southern California's high country. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said it was investigating what role, if any, late-February snowstorms may have played in the demise of at least eight people, most of them elderly, found to have died alone while snowbound in their homes over the past two weeks. The latest deluge from dense streams of Pacific moisture sweeping California's skies soaked some mountain areas still clogged with piles of snow dumped by a recent spate of paralyzing blizzards, while bringing even more snow to higher elevations. LOS ANGELES, March 10 (Reuters) - Emergency officials in several California counties spent Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers as an 'atmospheric river' storm drenched the already-sodden state with torrential rains, causing floods that washed out roads and prompted evacuations.

Current rainfall totals california los angeles