Just when will all this rain stop?
A record-shattering winter storm continued in Southern California on Tuesday, and flash flood warnings remained in effect, as record rainfall totals kept rising. But there is an end in sight for this storm, although it may be different depending on where you live.
If you are in Los Angeles County, make plans for about 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and then for the weekend.
If you are in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino or San Diego counties, well … we hope you have an indoor hobby.
“That rain is expected to continue through today, then a 12-hour gap on Wednesday,” said John Dumas, a meteorologist in the Los Angeles/Oxnard office of the National Weather Service. “After this push has gone through, there is one final push that will come Wednesday night into Thursday morning, and then from Thursday afternoon through the weekend, it’s looking like the end of rain at least for now.”
The story is different to the east and south.
“It’s not going away. We’re looking at a pretty active pattern. We’re going to have some wet times ahead,” said Jon Suk in the weather service’s San Diego office, which forecasts for San Diego and Orange counties and the Inland Empire.
The next system coming in will arrive Wednesday and be a colder storm, bringing in lighter rain than in the past few days but reducing snow levels to 4,000 feet through Saturday.
“I don’t want people to be panicking thinking they are going to see animals marching 2-by-2 like they have,” Suk said.
Lake Arrowhead could get a total of 10 inches of snow Tuesday night and Wednesday, with Big Bear receiving 8 inches, Wrightwood 7 and Idyllwild a foot, Suk said, with a total of a couple of inches of snow falling in each place Thursday through Saturday.
This recent storm has been one of the strongest in recorded history. Sunday and Monday totals amounted to the third-wettest two-day stretch for Los Angeles since records were kept starting in the…
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