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, there will be some opportunities to run rain-free errands on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service forecast continued persistent rain. But on Wednesday, the agency updated the forecast to scattered showers before a new system moved in Wednesday night.
“That rain is expected to continue through (Tuesday), 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 system arriving Wednesday night will be a colder storm, bringing in lighter rain than in the past few days but reducing snow levels to 4,000 feet through Saturday.
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 1870s, said Ariel Cohen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
