| Overview: A Weak El Niņo
Combined with several storm systems
tracking through the western United
States(that tapped into sub-tropical air
flow)...led to one of the wettest seasons
in southern California history.
Meteorology:
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Satellite Loop |
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As the
satellite loop depicts. A
consistant onslaught of storm
systems impacted the west coast
region. These storm systems
tapped into moist southwest
flow...that stretch to the south
Pacific. This flow is known as
the "Pineapple
Express". |
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Records/Totals:
(Note:
rainy season begins on July 1st and ends
on June 30th)
Downtown
Los Angeles... 37.25" (2nd wettest
rainy season on record) (Note: records
began in 1877)
San
Diego Lindbergh Airport... 22.49"
(3rd wettest rain season on record) (Note: records
began in San Diego in 1850)
Some other rainfall totals
from southern California...
- LAX
Airport... 26.51"
- Long
Beach Airport... 29.37"
- Burbank
Airport... 35.48"
- Palmdale...
16.39"
- Oxnard/Camarillo...
28.45"
- Santa
Barbara Airport... 31.17"
- Santa
Maria... 19.52"
- Fullerton
Airport... 27.20"
- Ontario
Airport... 27.60"
- Palm
Springs... 11.23"
- Riverside
Airport... 21.20"
- Santa
Ana(John Wayne Airport)...
25.19"
- Ramona
Airport... 29.03"
Impacts on southern
California:
- Mudslides
contributed to the death toll in
California where the hillside
above La Conchita, in Ventura
County, gave way on the 10th
burying over a dozen homes
underneath feet of mud. Ten
people were believed to have died
in the incident (AP). Other less
extensive mudslides occurred
throughout the region, including
one in Los Angeles' Elysian Park
area that killed a homeless man.
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Information
courtesy of: NOAA/National Weather
Service
Last
Updated: Wednesday, July 06, 2005
(Data on
this page will be updated when needed.)
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