By MATTHEW MEYER | Reporter
Los Angeles’ badly needed rainy season continued with a weekend storm, as Pacific Palisades gained 3.6 inches of rain between Friday, Feb. 17 and Tuesday, Feb. 21. That brought the Palisades’ yearly rain total (measured from July 1 to June 30 each year) up to 21.61 inches, already far above LA’s average total of about 15 inches.
That data courtesy of Huntington micro-weather tracker Craig Weston, who appeared on the Weather Channel twice last week to report on the storm from Will Rogers State Beach and his own backyard station.
The rain brought its usual dose of mayhem to go along with its drought-busting benefits: Last weekend saw more road closures, traffic jams and auto accidents.
The weather also halted the Genesis Open, held at The Riviera Country Club, for about half a day, but the golf tournament ultimately made up the time and concluded as scheduled.
Rich Schmitt/Staff Photographer
Down the hill, Canyon resident Greg Willis told the Palisadian-Post that rain was wreaking havoc at the beach, too, with flooding in the Roosevelt Tunnel so significant that pedestrians had to wade up to their knees to cross under PCH.
Forecasts predict that a break in the downpours will last until Sunday, Feb. 26, but expect more wet weather before February concludes.
View Weston’s Palisades-specific weather tracking at weatherlink.com/user/chartist10.
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