April Showers Bring Possible Thunderstorm To Los Angeles Region

LOS ANGELES, CA —SoCal residents awoke Monday morning to light rainfall, and thunderstorms may yet be in store for the afternoon, the National Weather Service said.

The April showers are the result of a slow-moving upper level low that dropped the bulk of precipitation along the Central California coast overnight, aid NWS meteorologist Curt Kaplan. The rainfall has been spotty across the Los Angeles regional, and another round of sporadic rain remained possible Monday morning, according to Kaplan. The rainfall will remain light creating nowhere near enough precipitation for the threat of debris flows, Kaplan added.

However, dry and wet thunderstorms are possible, and any dry thunderstorm, which occurs when the atmosphere is so dry that rain dissipates before hitting the ground, can trigger fires when accompanied with lightning, the NWS said. Any strong thunderstorm also could produce wind gusts of 50 miles per hour, the weather service warned.

The California Highway Patrol recorded a handful of rain-relating accidents Monday morning including two fatal crashes on freeways in Pomona and Sun Valley.

The NWS forecast showers in L.A. County Monday and highs of 52 degrees on Mount Wilson; 62 in Avalon; 65 in Saugus; 66 in Palmdale, Lancaster and at LAX; 67 in Burbank; and 68 in Downtown L.A., Long Beach, Pasadena and San Gabriel.

Tuesday's highs will be roughly the same, but amid cloudy skies.

City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.