LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Forecasters say the worst rainfall from a Southern California winter storm has passed after causing evacuations in wildfire-scarred foothills and cutting power to more than 20,000 people.
National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Boldt says the heaviest rains had passed Monday and skies were expected to clear until Tuesday, when a second storm was due to blow through.
Authorities boosted the number of homes that were either under evacuation or on alert to nearly 190, from just over 100 earlier in the day.
Officials feared mudslides could still threaten a number of foothill areas along the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles.
Forecasters say storms lasting through at least Friday could drop 20 inches of rain on Southern California.
