[Ron C.]

"Hopefully the end is in sight."

Indeed it is, as this satellite picture shows...

"rain has gone away for the moment..."

None here in Malibu - but there's one more little front out there (circled in green) a couple of hours away - about now...

Looks to me like the hype of a monster storm tonight is just that - hype. But, who knows, I'm certainly no weatherman.

That great big 'cutoff high' they've been talking about looks like it's doing just that - cutting off anything more for the Los Angeles basin after this evening.

Everything to the right of that orange line is headed south and east - away from LA, and shortly, away from San Diego. But time will tell the real story... BTW this image is almost an hour old at this moment.

[NormsRevenge]

Interesting weather line-up for the week ahead.. we been pretty dry here for a day.. that jetstream is screaming across the country..

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well...hooray for a cutoff low.

[DoughtyOne]

As to whether you’re right or not, who knows, but KFI and ABC have reported that about 250 homes will be evacuated this evening in La Crescenta and La Canada for fear of excessive flooding. It appears they think this evening’s rain is going to be worse than the last go-round. My weather app is referring to possible thunder-storms and that generally lends itself to a cloud-burst effect.

To put this in perspective, there were daily totals of up to five inches in these areas in the last few days with little bad effect. That causes me to wonder what they are seeing, that would be worse than that.

I don’t wish bad effects on anyone, but I’ll be very happy to see rain continue. We’re in a severe drought. We need this rain.

It’s my hope that continued rain won’t cause more problems than have been experienced up to this point.