Southland Gets Rain--but It Doesn’t Help Much

Snow fell in the mountains, rain showers dampened the coastal valleys and winds rose to 30 m.p.h. at times in Southern California on Sunday, but no major damage was reported and forecasters said the rain wasn’t really enough to do much good.

Travelers advisories were in effect for the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains, where several inches of new snow fell Sunday morning--and was hurled in the faces of skiers by westerly winds that gusted to 30 m.p.h. in some places.

The National Weather Service said the snow level would remain just above the 4,000-foot level overnight and most of today, adding that the next real chance of precipitation would be Tuesday.

Small-craft advisories kept pleasure craft in harbors from Point Conception to the Mexican border Sunday morning. The weather service predicted southeast to east winds rising to 25 knots at times. All the harbors were open again by early afternoon, however, and meteor1869377383comparatively dry.

Only .07 of an inch of rain had fallen at the Los Angeles Civic Center by late afternoon, bringing the season total to 6.23 inches, more than four inches below normal and a little more than half the amount that had fallen by this time last year.

It was a bit wetter elsewhere--.59 of an inch fell at Mt. Wilson, .43 at Newport Beach and .22 at Imperial Beach and San Juan Capistrano--but Long Beach got only .03 of an inch, while Santa Ana and El Toro received .02, Santa Barbara and Torrance .01, and most other places had to be satisfied with a mere trace . . . or nothing at all.

Meteorologists said another storm system is dropping southward out of western Canada and should arrive over southern Nevada Tuesday, bringing about a 30% chance of showers for the Southland.

Meanwhile, the high temperature at Los Angeles Civic Center Sunday reached 62 degrees with relative humidity ranging from 39% to 80%. Forecasters said it should be about the same today, under partly cloudy skies.