More Rain Expected In 2nd Day Of Summer Storm In California

It’s not every day you see giant wildfires, repeated lightning strikes closing beaches from Long Beach to Zuma and flash-flood watches like those that hit Southern California on Saturday – but if you somehow missed it, Sunday is expected to be more of the same.

“Interstate 10 is closed completely and indefinitely”, Terri Kasinga, spokeswoman for the California Department of Transportation, said.

One driver had to be rescued from a pickup that crashed in the collapse and was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries, the Riverside County Fire Department said. The advisory for all Los Angeles County beaches, except areas that aren’t near storm drains, creeks or rivers, will be in effect until at least 10 a.m. Tuesday, according to a news release.

The westbound section of the freeway near Desert Center has also been affected after the water undermined the road surface.

Kasinga says engineers won’t even be able to properly assess the damage to the two sides until Monday morning, and offered no timeframe for their opening again.

The influx of moisture has resulted in unusually humid air that feels more like Houston than mid-summer in Los Angeles.

Transportation officials recommended travelers on the east side of the collapse use U.S. Highway 95 in Arizona to get to other freeways, and that in California drivers use state routes 86 and 111 to get to Interstate 8 into Arizona.

Many Southern California residents were without power Sunday afternoon.

“July rain is so unusual in Southern California that the storm broke a number of records for the month”.

The lighting is expected to continue, but less frequently than Saturday, until midday Monday, said Brett Albright, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s San Diego office.

The region received scattered showers on Saturday — in some areas, downpours — as a tropical storm off Baja California pushed clouds and warm and muggy conditions northward.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A summer storm delivered rain, thunder and lightning to central and southern California, leading to beach closures, flash floods and outages that left tens of thousands of people without power. Beaches across the Southland, including those in Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties, were temporarily shut down due to threats of lightning strikes. Specifically, downtown Los Angeles recorded 0.36 inches Saturday, the most the area received on a July day since a storm brought 0.24 inches of rainfall in July 1886. That blaze was 60% contained by Sunday morning.