DODGING A RAINY BULLET STORM CAUSES BARELY A RIPPLE.Byline: Staff and Wire Services The vanguard of a Pacific storm reached the Southland Saturday morning, but the system wasn't as powerful as initially forecast. By 9:15 a.m., light rain was reported in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , West Los Angeles
“KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX , Van Nuys and Burbank, but only a tenth of an inch of rain fell on downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and .20 inch on Burbank by 5 p.m., with other areas recording similar amounts. ``It was a fast-moving cold front - we got the tail end of it - that just roared right through the West Coast,'' said National Weather Service spokesman Bill Hoffer Initially, forecasters were expecting rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches along the coast, and 3 to 5 inches in the foothills, Hoffer said. The light rain increased traffic collisions in Los Angeles County by only a slight amount Saturday. California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Kimball said there were 150 traffic collisions from midnight Saturday to 4:40 p.m., compared to 114 for the same period a week ago. Forecasters expect partly cloudy skies today for the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. region, with highs in the mid-50s to mid-60s, and lows tonight in the mid-30s to upper-40s. Monday will be mostly sunny, with highs in the 60s to lower-70s. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Cameron Tennant, 15, of Woodland Hills, braves the drizzle Saturday and practices his swing at the Woodley Lakes Golf Course in Van Nuys. (2) Despite earlier showers and rain clouds on the horizon, Janis Couverly walks her dog Cody in Newbury Park on Saturday. Alex Collins/Special to the Daily News |
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