BREAK IN THE WEATHER : MORE RAINFALL EXPECTED ON HEELS OF WEEKEND STORM.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer A weekend winter storm that dropped 1-1/2 inches of rain on Santa Clarita dusted Gorman with snow and coated the Grapevine with ice - a prelude to a second storm that was expected to hit Monday evening and continue through today. Sunday's rain prompted the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La to send a swift-water rescue team to the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. to guard against mishaps as local rivers and streams began filling. An urban and small-stream flood advisory was called off at 9 a.m. Today will be mostly cloudy with rain likely in the afternoon and snow at 5,000-foot elevations, the National Weather Service predicted. The high temperature will hover around 50 degrees Fahrenheit with the low about 40 degrees, according to the forecast. Sunday's storm caused no serious problems locally but did tie up traffic on the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. north of Castaic. Three northbound lanes were closed to traffic for four hours when two big rigs collided, slipping on the icy asphalt, the California Highway Patrol reported. Southbound traffic was escorted through the Grapevine because of ice and snow. By midmorning mid·morn·ing n. The middle of the morning. , the freeway reopened, but the CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan cautioned motorists to carry chains because more snow was expected. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Color) Storm clouds loom on the horizon Monday at Castaic after a wet, winter storm passed through the area over the weekend. (2--Color) An angler at lower Castaic Lake takes advantage of the storm break before the expected return Expected Return The average of a probability distribution of possible returns, calculated by using the following formula: of rain today. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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