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Last updated: Thursday, December 25, 2025 2:48AM GMT<\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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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Dec 24, 2025, 6:43 PM GMT<\/p>\n
Tornado warning issued for small portion of east-central LA County<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Dec 24, 2025, 6:00 PM GMT<\/p>\n
Thousands across SoCal impacted by power outages, LADWP says<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reports numerous power outages in various parts of its service area.<\/p>\n
In all, thousands of customers are affected, but crews are either at work or being dispatched to restore service.<\/p>\n
The largest outages are in the San Fernando Valley and the West L.A. area, according to the department’s outage map.<\/p>\n
Southern California Edison is also reporting outages in Los Angeles and Orange County but fewer numbers of customers appear to be affected.<\/p>\n
City News Service, Inc. contributed to this report.<\/p>\n
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Dec 24, 2025, 3:48 PM GMT<\/p>\n
California working to capture rain for future water supply<\/p>\n
California is working to capture as much storm as possible.<\/p>\n
The winter season is a critical time of year for collecting and storing water to get us through the drier months.<\/p>\n
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office says last month’s storms generated enough water to supply tens of thousands of households in Los Angeles alone.<\/p>\n
And reservoirs across the state still have room for the rain we’re getting now. Lake Oroville’s storage is at 54% capacity.<\/p>\n
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Dec 24, 2025, 3:21 PM GMT<\/p>\n
How many times has SoCal had rain on Christmas?<\/p>\n
In Southern California, we’re often spoiled with our nice weather.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
ABC7 Meteorologist Dallas Raines looked into it and found that it has only rained 46 times on Christmas Day since 1892.<\/p>\n
This storm system could deliver one of the wettest holidays in recent memory.<\/p>\n
So we’re talking about a span of more than 125 years. That means we’ve only received rain 34% of the time.<\/p>\n
The most recent storm was back in 2017 when it rained almost one inch on Christmas Day in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
And if you were wondering if L.A. has ever had a white Christmas, the answer is no. But we can always dream, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last updated: Thursday, December 25, 2025 2:48AM GMT A powerful Christmas week storm is dumping rain across Southern…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[211819,1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-470385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-211819","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115779259803153692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}