There are headlines all over the Los Angeles Times about this, so it must be big news.
The storm, on a 'conveyor belt right toward California,' is poised to drop several inches of rain just in time to wreak havoc on the last shopping weekend before Christmas.
Actually, it won't.
Los Angeles does have poor sewers and street drainage, partly because it never rains, so garbage and debris clog up the sewers. Puddles and streams of 2 to 3 feet form very quickly next to curbs and lower parts of the street, causing wet feet and large splashes from nearby cars.Traffic will slow for the first day of rain, as a result, but after that it's je ne sais quoi for the freeways.
Meteorologists helpfully bring up La Nina when LA gets any moisture. And as always, predictions for La Nina and/or El Nino are that we will get a lot more rain, or a lot less rain.
Cartoon on the rain.
Talented cartoonist Steve Greenberg has a good cartoon about weather in Los Angeles.
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