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Topic Archive: Weather
Twitter has erupted with rainbow images from across Los Angeles.
Posted February 9, 2010 5:36 PM
Once again, residents of about 500 homes in La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta and Acton have been told to leave due to an approaching "very cold and vigorous storm system."
Posted February 8, 2010 11:30 PM
From this morning in La Cañada Flintridge, via Channel 7.
Posted February 6, 2010 6:17 PM
The heavier-than-expected rain that fell overnight has challenged debris basis and runoff channels across the front of the San Gabriels, especially in drainages where the Station Fire burned.
Posted February 6, 2010 4:24 PM
For some reason the weather forecast on the Los Angeles Times home page right now is calling for snow and says the temperature is 37 degrees.
Posted February 3, 2010 9:35 AM
The airline is canceling most arrivals and departures this afternoon at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, and in Ontario, Orange County, San Diego, Phoenix and Tucson, because of high wind conditions.
Posted January 21, 2010 2:02 PM
The strongest flood warnings from the National Weather Service are for the Orange County canyons. The morning update on the Los Angeles situation from Mayor Villaraigosa's office follows.
Posted January 21, 2010 11:54 AM
is the current radar map on Channel 9. That's Los Angeles buried under the orange.
Posted January 20, 2010 2:07 PM
More than 1,000 homes beneath the Station Fire burn areas are now under mandatory evacuation orders, per media reports.
Posted January 20, 2010 12:07 PM
A Channel 7 viewer sent the station this clip of a tornado funnel touching down near Riverside
Posted January 19, 2010 5:37 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa won't be heading to Washington for the U.S. Conference of Mayors this week after all. "Out of an abundance of caution," spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton says, he'll be staying...
Posted January 19, 2010 5:17 PM
There's no evidence of tornadoes forming, but the storm coming through is apparently capable of spinning them off.
Posted January 19, 2010 1:35 PM
'Rocks the size of frozen turkeys' tumbled down Canyonside Road in La Crescenta during Monday's storm, says the father of Dashel Dupuy, the 13-year-old who shot this amazing video. It's...
Posted January 18, 2010 10:50 PM
Three or four storms that could drop as much as 20 inches of rain on the San Gabriels and the adjacent foothills are expected to start rolling in this weekend.
Posted January 15, 2010 1:34 PM
Scientist-blogger Grace Peng sent along this map of a jet stream slamming into Southern California, offering it as an explainer of what happened around the area today. Click it to...
Posted December 22, 2009 6:06 PM
Rico Gagliano, a reporter for "Marketplace" and co-host of "The Dinner Party Download" podcast, sent along this photo of a tree that blew down during this morning's wind gusts. No...
Posted December 22, 2009 2:25 PM
The so-called Lindbergh beacon was shining atop Los Angeles City Hall when Kevin McCollister captured the view during Saturday's storm. Click to biggify....
Posted December 15, 2009 1:15 AM
This week's snowfall covered some of the ash from the Station Fire that has given the San Gabriel Mountains a sickly appearance. Snow is also better than rain when it...
Posted December 10, 2009 5:17 PM
The county's official rainfall map for the past 24 hours shows 0.00 for two high profile measuring stations: the ones at USC (presumably the gauge formerly known as Civic Center)...
Posted December 7, 2009 2:02 PM
This morning's view of the San Gabriels and Cucamonga Peak from Riverside, by Guy McCarthy of Watershed News. More Sunday snow pictures in his Flickr stream. Coordinates fixed...
Posted November 29, 2009 10:12 PM
Cellphones, GPS and the struggling economy are conspiring to begin the die-off phase for regular traffic reports on your car radio, says Daisy Nguyen at AP. (She could have cited...
Posted November 27, 2009 3:42 PM
This is how nice a day we had for Thanksgiving: Veronique de Turenne could see Downtown Los Angeles from the cove that Here in Malibu calls home. Multiple, larger views...
Posted November 26, 2009 11:31 PM
Posted in May, but apt today. What happens in L.A. when it rains, the spoof — with some good lines and extensive UCLA scenery....
Posted October 13, 2009 8:28 PM
More from Steve Greenberg in the LA Sketchbook archive...
Posted October 13, 2009 5:52 PM
Nice image of the national weather picture — clouds almost everywhere but the Southwest — at the Chance of Rain blog. The blog also has a take on Gov. Schwarzenegger's...
Posted October 12, 2009 10:26 AM
Over the weekend, La Crescenta author Bernadette Murphy had a nice opinion piece in the L.A. Times invoking John McPhee and his seminal writing on debris flows out of the...
Posted October 6, 2009 6:33 PM
Weird story. Melanie Patton Renfrew, a geography professor at Harbor College, has pleaded no contest to violating a judge's order to stop harassing KNBC weather caster Fritz Coleman. That, as...
Posted September 3, 2009 8:32 PM
John Stodder grabbed this image of the smoke that belched from the Redondo Beach power plant near King Harbor as generators cranked up to meet today's demand for air conditioning....
Posted April 20, 2009 3:54 PM
This stormy President's Day is when the 2009 Los Angeles Marathon would have been run under one of Frank McCourt's schedules. The race was postponed until Memorial Day, and at...
Posted February 16, 2009 1:25 PM
David Garza of Los Angeles Mission College grabbed this photo of snow dusting the hills behind Sylmar this afternoon....
Posted February 9, 2009 10:58 PM
The reader who sent this photo into LongBeachReport.com said it was the last of three water spouts seen descending offshore before 9 a.m. Story there....
Posted February 7, 2009 11:44 AM
Friends in Washington keep messaging about how frigid it is there. So just for the record, the giant thermometer outside LA Observed Tower reads 84 degrees. Golden sunshine, as David...
Posted January 20, 2009 12:35 PM
Snow-capped peaks, sailboats and sea lions: just another winter day in L.A. The video features the Marina Peninsula and Marina del Rey, Ballona Lagoon, Santa Monica Bay and Santa Catalina...
Posted December 30, 2008 10:47 AM
Just about every news photographer I know has a favorite spot to go grab the obligatory snowy peaks behind downtown Los Angeles shot that news desks want every year or...
Posted December 18, 2008 1:05 PM
The director's daily weather report on camera from his home in Los Angeles. Because I hadn't linked to it before. Lynch's website...
Posted November 24, 2008 2:54 PM
Here we go again -- more hot and windy weather on the way. Guy McCarthy at Watershed News gathers the details: Just a few days after a cold front contributed...
Posted November 13, 2008 3:17 PM
Veronique's sunrise photo over the cove at Malibu captures the day in Southern California. It's 93 in downtown Los Angeles right now, with 5% humidity. Here in Malibu...
Posted October 23, 2008 2:28 PM
Today's high of 109 degrees set the local record for a June 19. AP...
Posted June 19, 2008 9:30 PM
High waves are pounding the coast and rip currents are making the sea more treacherous than usual. Piers at Manhattan Beach and Seal Beach were closed yesterday due to the...
Posted February 25, 2008 8:52 AM
Jay Babcock at Nature Trumps: An L.A. River Blog posts this scene from November, looking upstream from the footbridge toward Los Feliz Boulevard and the burned Griffith Park hills. Click...
Posted January 26, 2008 3:16 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa announced some road closures in the park as the rains continue. "The park has experienced some minor to moderate debris flows and flooding on several of its main...
Posted January 25, 2008 2:15 PM
Spotted in the Daily Breeze, by staff photographer Robert Casillas....
Posted January 8, 2008 9:10 AM
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