Posted on 08/26/2007 3:30:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
(CBS) LOS ANGELES
Thunderstorms left over from Hurricane Dean were dumping rain on northern San Diego County Sunday morning, and at least two bands of storms are poised to hit the Los Angeles basin later Sunday.
Nearly two inches of rain fell in Escondido in a series of cloudbursts that started at 6:45 a.m. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for San Diego County at about 7 a.m., and a forecaster said similar storms could develop in Orange and Los Angeles counties later Sunday.
The storms are tropical moisture fed up from the tropics by the low pressure system once known as category 5 Hurricane Dean, and the system still has a center, currently 140 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, federal meteorologist Manuel Miller said.
Several bands of thunderstorms are circling out of the low pressure system "like the arms of Andromeda," Miller said. One band of heavy rain is in the Pacific waters near Santa Catalina Island, moving towards Los Angeles and Orange County later Sunday, the forecaster said.
This morning's radar pictures showed "we have a whole line of storms between Carlsbad and Cuyamaca, and reaching up to Palomar Mountain, that are morphing into each other," Miller said.
Two weather observers in Escondido measured 1.89 and 1.7 inches of rain in a one-hour span as the storms opened up after 6:45 a.m.
California Highway Patrol officers reported heavy rain in Valley Center and Escondido. But few traffic accidents were reported, and no state highways were closed as of 8:15 a.m.
But Miller said he expected arroyos and canyons in North County to be filled.
"Pick your creek in the region and it's probably flowing right now," Miller said. "But this is not longstanding enough to create a river-flooding problem" in the San Luis Rey and San Dieguito rivers, which drain the are
Holy Moley! Has Governor Schwarzedavis declared a state of emergency yet?
Please Dear Lord! I have been praying for a miracle! We had 2 inches of rain this past year.
Not exactly a hurricane thread but this storm is still producing. I just thought you might be interested in an update.
We got a few drops today in the OC.
I recall asking someone about the possibility of Dean reforming after it crossed Mexico. I don’t know if it was either of you two.
It hasn’t really reformed but looks like it’s still around.
But yesterday on the radar loops, you could clearly see a well-defined upper-level circulation just off the coast of California. That part of Dean survived and triggered the rain. But the uppper low is not a tropical system in and of itself.
It hasn’t really reformed but looks like it’s still around.
Could've been me as well. In any case, dirtboy explained it in #7.
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