An approaching storm system is predicted to carry chilly and moist situations to Southern California this week after an unseasonably warm Christmas weekend.
The winter storm system is predicted to arrived Tuesday afternoon in Santa Barbara and transfer into Los Angeles County throughout the night.
Forecasters count on reasonable to heavy rainfall, producing about half an inch to an inch of rain within the Los Angeles space with snow within the increased elevations above 6,000 toes.
Temperatures will drop to the low to mid 60s throughout the week.
“There will be continued showers after that system,” Joe Sirard, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, stated.
An opportunity of showers will stay by way of the remainder of the week and into Saturday evening on New Year’s Eve.
A high-pressure ridge within the Pacific warmed up the California coast this vacation weekend, leading to a warm and sunny Christmas in Los Angeles, the National Weather Service stated. Temperatures had been to attain close to record-breaking ranges within the low 80s on Sunday.
Meanwhile, it has been a tough vacation weekend for a lot of the nation.
Hundreds of flights had been delayed or canceled out of Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend as a “bomb cyclone” climate sample tore throughout the United States, bringing record-breaking chilly temperatures practically in all places however California.
Meteorologists referred to as the winter storm a “once-in-a-generation-type event” that affected greater than 100 million individuals and resulted in additional than two dozen deaths throughout the northern half of the United States.