Last updated: Thursday, December 25, 2025 2:48AM GMT
A powerful Christmas week storm is dumping rain across Southern California, putting at-risk communities on alert for possible mudslides and creating slick driving conditions for the region as a whole.
The atmospheric river is bringing several inches of rain over the next few days, raising the risk of flash flooding and triggering evacuation warnings and orders in some areas.
Significant rain is expected to slam Southern California for most of Wednesday, and the wet weather will stick around through Friday.
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Here’s how the news is developing.
Dec 24, 2025, 6:43 PM GMT
Tornado warning issued for small portion of east-central LA County
A Tornado Warning was issued for a small portion of east-central Los Angeles County, which included the communities of Alhambra, Pasadena, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, El Monte, and Temple City.
The warning was canceled around 10:40 a.m., but the National Weather Service said that damaging winds are likely to stick around and that the Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect for the area.
Dec 24, 2025, 6:00 PM GMT
Thousands across SoCal impacted by power outages, LADWP says
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reports numerous power outages in various parts of its service area.
In all, thousands of customers are affected, but crews are either at work or being dispatched to restore service.
The largest outages are in the San Fernando Valley and the West L.A. area, according to the department’s outage map.
Southern California Edison is also reporting outages in Los Angeles and Orange County but fewer numbers of customers appear to be affected.
City News Service, Inc. contributed to this report.
Dec 24, 2025, 3:48 PM GMT
California working to capture rain for future water supply
California is working to capture as much storm as possible.
The winter season is a critical time of year for collecting and storing water to get us through the drier months.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office says last month’s storms generated enough water to supply tens of thousands of households in Los Angeles alone.
And reservoirs across the state still have room for the rain we’re getting now. Lake Oroville’s storage is at 54% capacity.
Dec 24, 2025, 3:21 PM GMT
How many times has SoCal had rain on Christmas?
In Southern California, we’re often spoiled with our nice weather.
It’s usually dry on Christmas, which allows us to have our holiday gatherings outdoors. But this storm system could deliver one of the wettest holidays in recent memory.
ABC7 Meteorologist Dallas Raines looked into it and found that it has only rained 46 times on Christmas Day since 1892.
This storm system could deliver one of the wettest holidays in recent memory.
So we’re talking about a span of more than 125 years. That means we’ve only received rain 34% of the time.
The most recent storm was back in 2017 when it rained almost one inch on Christmas Day in Los Angeles.
And if you were wondering if L.A. has ever had a white Christmas, the answer is no. But we can always dream, right?