HEAT GREETS CHANCE OF VALLEY RAIN.Byline: Alex Roth Daily News Staff Writer Chatsworth and other sections of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County had three-digit record temperatures Sunday as a tropical storm tropical storm n. A cyclonic storm having winds ranging from approximately 48 to 121 kilometers (30 to 75 miles) per hour. tropical storm moved into the area, the National Weather Service said. The storm brought rain to the Antelope Valley and the possibility of summer rain to 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. . Chatsworth's high temperature of 105 degrees tied a record set Aug. 9, 1980, while the high of 100 degrees at the Civic Center in 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 broke a record of 98 set in 1935, meteorologist Bill Hoffer said. The forecast today calls for clouds over the Valley, with a 40 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. There is a 20 percent chance of showers Tuesday, but Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are expected to be mostly clear, Hoffer said. The tropical storm had been expected to move into the Los Angeles area Sunday night and the National Weather Service announced that a flash-flood warning would be in effect until 3 a.m. for Woodland Hills, Burbank, Newhall and Pasadena. The San Gabriel Mountains San Gabriel Mountains, S Calif., E and NE of Los Angeles, running c.50 mi (80 km) westward from Cajon Pass. San Antonio Peak (10,080 ft/3,072 m) is the highest of the range. Citrus fruits are raised on the southern foothills. experienced brief, heavy rains Sunday. In the Antelope Valley, a flash flood forced the closure of a highway, a California Highway Patrol officer said. Pearblossom Highway just east of 165th Street East was closed for 2-1/2 hours from about 6 p.m. due to ``major flooding (from) a thunderstorm thunderstorm, violent, local atmospheric disturbance accompanied by lightning, thunder, and heavy rain, often by strong gusts of wind, and sometimes by hail. moving west,'' said 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 Officer Karen Faciane. Weather specialists said the high temperatures are customary. ``What happens this time of year is we get a superior air mass, a dome of high pressure, which can cover the entire Southwestern United States and which has been covering the entire Southwestern United States,'' Hoffer said. In Ventura County, Simi Valley saw a record high of 102, beating the old record of 101 set in 1994, Hoffer said. Long Beach also set a record, reaching 101 Sunday. Its old record of 99 was set in 1935. In other areas Sunday, Northridge reached 101, Pasadena 101, San Gabriel 100 and Van Nuys 99. None of these were records for this date. |
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