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Snowfall inside the city of Los Angeles is rare. The record snowfall occurred on January 19, 1949, when 3.0 inches (7.6 cm) of snow fell inside city limits, however Burbank reported 4.7 inches. Since official records were first kept in 1877, the downtown Los Angeles weather station observed measurable snowfall three times, in 1882, 1932, and 1949.
Los Angeles International Airport received 2.54 inches, and Long Beach Airport reported 2.62 inches, compared with their previous records of “a trace” of rain, Thompson said.
With parts of Los Angeles County still smoldering from wildfires and new blazes flaring up earlier this week, expected rainfall this weekend would seem like a welcome relief. But how the rain ...
Bel-Air had a peak 24-hour rainfall of 12.42 inches (315 mm) which equates to a 380-year return interval (0.3%).Los Angeles had been incorporating elements of a stormwater harvesting design to retain the rainwater. From February 4 to 7, the city captured 8.6 billion gallons of water, equivalent to the yearly needs of 106,000 homes. [28]
There is a 10% to 20% chance of flash flooding and landslides in some recently burned areas of Los Angeles County, ... and result in higher rainfall totals, while a more inland route to the east ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.6 sq mi (79.212 km 2); 30.5 square miles (79 km 2) of it is land and 0.13 square miles (0.34 km 2) of it (0.43%) is covered by water. Glendale is the fourth largest [60] city within Los Angeles County.
The latest back-to-back water years have become the wettest on record for Los Angeles since the late 1800s, with more than 52 inches falling since October 2022. And officials say more is on the way.
The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was one of the largest floods in the history of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties in southern California. The flood was caused by two Pacific storms that swept across the Los Angeles Basin in February-March 1938 and generated almost one year's worth of precipitation in just a few days.