Southern California’s warm temperatures and sunny skies to give way to rain this week, forecasters say

An approaching storm system is predicted to convey chilly and moist situations to Southern California this week after an unseasonably heat 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 anticipate 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 ft.

Temperatures will drop to the low to mid 60s throughout the week.

“There might be continued water after that system,” Joe Sirard, meteorologist with the Nationwide Climate Service, stated.

An opportunity of showers will stay by way of the remainder of the week and into Saturday night time on New Yr’s Eve.

A high-pressure ridge within the Pacific warmed up the California coast this vacation weekend, leading to a heat and sunny Christmas in Los Angeles, the Nationwide Climate Service stated. Temperatures had been to achieve close to record-breaking ranges within the low 80s on Sunday.

In the meantime, it has been a tough vacation weekend for a lot of the nation.

Tons of of flights had been delayed or canceled out of Los Angeles Worldwide Airport over the weekend as a “bomb cyclone” climate sample tore throughout the USA, bringing record-breaking chilly temperatures practically in all places however California.

Meteorologists referred to as the winter storm a “once-in-a-generation-type occasion” that affected greater than 100 million folks and resulted in additional than two dozen deaths throughout the northern half of the USA.