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Heavy rainfall and lightning battered coastal areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties connected Monday afternoon, Oct. 4, prompting immoderate formation closures, meteorologists and officials said.
Heavy rainfall and lightning battered coastal areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties connected Monday afternoon, Oct. 4, prompting assorted formation closures, meteorologists and officials said. Vehicles pictured present are on Woodley Avenue betwixt Burbank and Victory boulevards successful the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area successful the San Fernando Valley. (Photo by OC Hawk)
At slightest a twelve radical flocked to Hilltop Park to drawback a glimpse of the lightning arsenic intermittent rainfall fell implicit the city in Signal Hill connected Monday, October 4, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
At slightest a twelve radical flocked to Hilltop Park to drawback a glimpse of the lightning arsenic intermittent rainfall fell implicit the city in Signal Hill connected Monday, October 4, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Mike Wang was among others that flocked to Hilltop Park to drawback a glimpse of the lightning arsenic intermittent rainfall fell implicit the metropolis successful Signal Hill connected Monday, October 4, 2021. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Lightning strikes successful the Los Angeles County country were observed passim the precocious day and aboriginal evening hours, said the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Residents were urged to stay indoors during the storm.
LIGHTNING | We are experiencing galore lightning strikes crossed the greater Los Angeles area. For your safety, we counsel residents to question structure and stay wrong until this lightning enactment subsides.
— L.A. County Fire Department (@LACoFDPIO) October 5, 2021
All beaches from Long Beach and San Pedro to Malibu were temporarily closed arsenic a effect of the storm, occurrence officials said.
📣 Public Safety Alert: Please beryllium advised that Marine Safety crews volition beryllium closing each beaches temporarily owed to disposable lightning South/Southwest of Long Beach.
We volition show the upwind and counsel erstwhile beaches volition beryllium reopened. pic.twitter.com/IPNyObNvVT
— Long Beach Fire (CA) (@LBFD) October 4, 2021
By 5:45 p.m., the archetypal question of thunderstorms had worked its mode done coastal Orange and Los Angeles counties, said Joe Sirard, meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office. Although different circular of coastal thunderstorms was expected aboriginal successful the evening astir 8 p.m. that could perchance past into the aboriginal greeting hours of Tuesday, Oct. 5, Sirard said.
“Around sunrise things should beryllium retired of present by time morning,” Sirard said. “Tuesday should beryllium overmuch quieter.”
The upwind strategy had immoderate motorists navigating bedewed roads. As of 6 p.m., the Hansen Dam successful the San Fernando Valley received .14 inches of rainfall, Long Beach experienced astir .05 inches and Downtown Los Angeles lone recorded hint amounts of precipitation, according to the NWS’ Los Angeles office.
An alert was issued for boaters from the Long Beach country retired to Catalina Island urging them to instrumentality structure during the storm, Sirard said.
Cloud-to-cloud lightning strikes were observed astir coastal Orange County, said Samantha Connolly, meteorologist with the NWS’ San Diego office.
The Los Angeles Chargers vs. Las Vegas Raiders game successful Inglewood was delayed arsenic a effect of the lightning arsenic well.
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