Overview
- Los Angeles County lifted evacuation warnings for multiple burn-scar areas Thursday afternoon after the main band of rain moved through, the LAFD said.
- Flood watches remain in place across Southern California as the National Weather Service continues warnings for flash flooding, debris flows and mudslides on wildfire burn scars.
- Another round of rain is expected to arrive Friday with the heaviest on Saturday, and the Weather Prediction Center highlights renewed risk from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara this weekend.
- The New Year’s Day storm set daily rainfall records at several sites, including 1.32 inches at Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport and 2.07 inches in San Diego, with additional records at Ontario, Long Beach and John Wayne airports.
- Storm impacts included a 3.6‑mile closure of Topanga Canyon Boulevard/State Route 27, rescues from flooded roads in San Diego, and a Pacific Coast Highway closure in Huntington Beach, with mountain snow likely to snarl Sierra travel near Donner Pass.