It has been a wet February for Southern California, and we are expected to finish the month with some more rainfall.
The first storm will hit the region on Monday, bringing light rain with it into early Tuesday. This first weather event of the week is not expected to bring significant rainfall, with totals projected to be less than a quarter of an inch for most areas across SoCal.
The foothill and mountain areas could get up to half an inch of rain, according to the National Weather Service. The storm is expected to pass Tuesday.
“This is going to continue to shift to the east as we make our way into the evening, KTLA 5 meteorologist Vera Jimenez said. “By tomorrow morning, we are going to be primarily dry, there may be a few lingering showers, but this system is definitely going to be out of our hair by the time Tuesday evening rolls around.”
Wednesday and Thursday are expected to be dry before another system rolls in on Friday which should bring heavier precipitation along with it.
“We’re going to see some atmospheric river components move in, which means, again, more rain,” Jimenez said. “It’s going to be about a 24-to-36-hour rain period going into the weekend.”
Temperatures will drop for Saturday and Sunday, with highs expected in the mid-60s, and the lows being between the low-to-mid 40s.
These two storms aren’t expected to bring the heavy rain that drenched Southern California earlier in the month.
February has been one of the wettest on record, according to the National Weather Service. Downtown Los Angeles has received 12.56″ of rain going into the final days of the month, making this the fourth wettest February on record, and the seventh wettest calendar month since records began being kept in 1877.