CALIFORNIA - Former Hurricane Dolores has brought rain to the southern region of California, and lots of it.
According to the National Weather Service, the area is seeing rainfall levels of “super historic” amounts for the month of July, usually the driest of time of the year, and it has yet to stop falling. Major cities in the area like Los Angeles and San Diego are among those being effected, with flash flood watches in effect for the Southwest Desert.
The Weather Channel also reported that this is not the only region effected by the now-regressed tropical storm. Neighboring states are seing some wetter weather as well.
“[Former Hurrican Dolores] enhanced the threat of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall from the Four Corners into the Desert Southwest, including parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado, Nevada and the deserts and mountains of southern California,” the Weather Channel reported.
The cumulations of rainfall for the 5 p.m. PST of July 18th to 5 p.m. PST July 19th timeframe, per a report compiled by Roland Clark, Owner of Weather Mission and Forecaster for Weather Advisory Service, Inc., included the record amounts listed below:
Other cities in the region included:
This sudden shift in the month least expected to see rain is being completely contributed to moisture generated from former Hurricane Dolores. As we previously reported the hurricane had been projected to develop into a major hurricane with the potential to impact the Southern California and Arizona weather before regressing back to a tropical storm. While it was said that Sunday may see record amounts of rainfall, the amount is still surprising.
"It looks like there's a good chance the monthly record is going to go up," Joe Sirard, a Forecaster for the National Weather Service, told the Associated Press. "Really, this is super historic."
Though Dolores itself has dissipated, rip tides on the Southern California coast and lighting warnings continue as the region still sees the effects of last week's Pacific hurricane.
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