Drizzle Dampens Region; Sunny Skies Likely Today
A low-pressure system moved across Southern California Tuesday, bringing light rainfall to Los Angeles and outlying communities and heavier precipitation to Santa Barbara County.
The rainfall was expected to end overnight with mostly sunny skies predicted for much of Southern California today and Thursday, according to meteorologists.
“This was a very typical January weather system,” said Mike Smith of WeatherData, which provides forecasts for The Times. “We had moisture coming over from the tropics and that reacted with a low-pressure system moving across Southern California.”
At 4 p.m. Tuesday, .15 of an inch of rainfall had been recorded at the Civic Center. That brought the seasonal rainfall total to 5.57 inches, more than half an inch above normal.
Parts of Santa Barbara County received .61 inches of rain from late Monday through Tuesday afternoon, with even heavier precipitation and snow in the mountains.
The high at the Civic Center Tuesday was 57 and the low 51. The humidity ranged between 95% and 62%.
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