REGION DUE FOR RESPITE FROM RAIN TODAY, FRIDAY.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer 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. can expect a reprieve today from the freakish freak·ish adj. 1. Markedly unusual or abnormal; strange: freakish weather; a freakish combination of styles. 2. Relating to or being a freak: a freakish extra toe. May weather that bedeviled the region Wednesday with a tornado in Camarillo, hail in Sylmar, lightning volleys all over and snow in local mountains. The cold storm out of the Gulf of Alaska Noun 1. Gulf of Alaska - a gulf of the Pacific Ocean between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago Pacific, Pacific Ocean - the largest ocean in the world contributed to dozens of mostly minor traffic accidents and the death of a pilot whose single-engine plane crashed near Interstate 5 in Gorman. Chatsworth, 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 other areas were deluged under record-setting daily rainfall. And sludgy turf at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park may be several places:
n. An event, such as an athletic contest, that has been rained out. Radioactive material in the atmosphere brought down by precipitation. - for the first time in the park's history. But today and Friday are expected to be more pleasant, with partly sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-70s forecast. And then, this weekend, another cold front will move in from the Gulf of Alaska, with a 20 percent chance of showers. Spring might return next week - and might not, if this week has been any measure. Just ask Bob Winslow, a Tujunga resident who witnessed dozens of lightning strikes in an industrial section of Sun Valley about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday. ``I've been through tornadoes and hurricanes and I've never seen anything like this,'' Winslow said. ``The clouds started to get dark and ominous. It started to pour and hail and the lightning just came out of nowhere,'' he said. ``It sounded like World War III World War III (abbreviated WWIII), or the Third World War, is a term used to describe a hypothetical conflict on the scale of World War I and World War II, or even larger, such as a nuclear holocaust. with all the thunder.'' With nine-tenths of an inch of rain Wednesday, Chatsworth set a new daily rainfall record. The old record was .01 of an inch, based on records going back about 30 years. The Los Angeles Civic Center also received record precipitation with more than an inch of rain. That brings the season-to-date rainfall to 30.96 inches, more than twice normal. With just one-third of an inch more rain, this season will become the fifth-wettest on record, overtaking the 1982-83 season, which also was affected by El Nino, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the National Weather Service. Weather officials do not expect this season to break the all-time record of 38.18 inches set in 1883-84. The Weather Service issued a tornado warning about 10 a.m. for western Los Angeles and southeast Ventura counties after a funnel cloud touched down about four miles northeast of Camarillo, said NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) meteorologist Bruce Rockwell. No damage was reported. Witnesses say another twister ripped the roof off service bays at Pacific Ford, a dealership in Long Beach, about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. But weather experts later said it was simply high winds. Motorists on the Grapevine stretch of Interstate 5 saw a small plane go down in heavy cloud cover about 11:45 a.m. A 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 helicopter later found the wreckage in mountainous terrain near Gorman Post Road, which parallels the freeway. The single-engine plane slammed into a hillside above an electric power plant. Firefighters recovered the pilot's body but he was not identified, pending notification of relatives. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were sent to the scene to determine why the plane went down. Based on registration data, the plane was believed to belong to a company that patrols oil pipelines, and those belonging to various utility companies, such as telephone, electric and natural gas. Snow levels in the local mountains dropped to 4,000 feet in some areas, with about three inches of new snow falling at Mount Pinos in the Los Padres National Forest Los Padres National Forest is a forest located in southern and central California, which includes most of the mountainous land along the California coast from Ventura to Monterey, extending inland. Elevations range from sea level to 8,831 feet. . Daily News Staff Writers Mary Schubert and Mike Coit contributed to this story. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) A single-engine airplane crashed about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday on this mountain near Gorman. David R. Crane/Daily News (2) A car sits in the brush beside the eastbound Ronald Reagan Freeway in Chatsworth after its driver was rescued. Evan Yee/Daily News |
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