Winter Storm Prompts Closures, Rescues In Southern California

LOS ANGELES Feb. 26 (Una): A weakening, powerful winter storm is expected to make its way through Southern California, leaving mounds of freezing rain, snow and record-breaking rain in its wake.

Reports of power outages, flights grounded, and road closures swirled across the Southland as a plume of freezing moisture traveled a southeasterly path.

Lightning closed several beaches from Los Angeles to San Diego — including all beaches in Los Angeles County — as officials warned of possible strikes along the coast and over the ocean until midnight.

Rescue crews came to the aid of several people, including a 61-year-old man who was brought to safety from a dirt island in the Tujunga wash Saturday morning and two homeless men who were similarly stranded amid waters that rose in the Hansen Dam, Los Angeles fire. The administration said, according to Dr.

The LAFD said four homeless people, along with four dogs and a cat, were also rescued from a remote stretch of land inside the Sepulveda Basin which was heavily flooded late Friday night.

Two of the subjects had hypothermia and were hospitalized. The storm, which has already turned Northern California into a winter wonderland, set multiple records for rainfall in and around Los Angeles on Friday, including 4.61 inches of rain near Hollywood Burbank Airport — the fifth wettest day on record, according to Rich Thompson, an expert. Los Angeles Meteorologist. National Weather Service Oxnard.

Daily precipitation records were also recorded at LAX, which came in at 2.04 inches, in Lancaster with 0.78 inches, Camarillo with 1.43 inches, Oxnard with 2.04 inches and Santa Maria with 2.61 inches, Thompson said, calling it “pretty cool stuff.” “

The unusual system also dropped heavy snow on mountainous areas, especially elevations above 4,500 feet. Mountain High Resort in Wrightwood received 65 inches of fresh powder within 24 hours, Thompson said, with an additional foot likely to occur Saturday. However, Thompson said the brunt of the storm passed through the Los Angeles area.

“Right now, the heaviest rain has moved east of Los Angeles County. You’ll still see light to moderate rain in the morning, but this afternoon it will turn into more rain,” he said.

Areas like San Bernardino and San Diego were still “in the thick of it” Saturday morning, said Brian Adams, a meteorologist with the San Diego Weather Service, but he also expects a weak trend later in the day.

“The system as a whole is kind of moving in an east-southeast trajectory,” he said. The weak system spurred a number of dramatic rescues and dangerous situations over the course of his days of rage.

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