Storm System Nudged Into L.A. Area Brings Scattered Showers
Scattered rain showers fell in the Los Angeles Basin on Thursday afternoon, and the National Weather Service said there could be a little more rain today.
Forecasters said the unexpected showers had moved into the area when a storm system over Nevada was nudged into Southern California by high-altitude jet stream winds.
Normally, prevailing winds move the weather from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere, but this time the storm system moved from east to west, with most of the rain falling along the southern flank of the San Gabriel Mountains.
“The rain is really hit-and-miss,” a weather service meteorologist, Curt Kaplan, said Thursday afternoon. “Chatsworth got .31 of an inch and it rained hard in Burbank, but a lot of places got no rain at all.”
Kaplan said the system would lurk over the basin today, with more scattered showers possible through this afternoon. Partly cloudy skies, with high temperatures mostly in the upper 60s, are expected Saturday and Sunday.
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