Josh Rubenstein's Weather Forecast (Dec. 1)
STUDIO CITY (KCAL9) — After Sunday's rain, things are drying out.
Certainly totals with the rain event over the weekend were higher than anticipated because of the enhanced lift in the atmosphere; however, Tuesday looks to be a much stronger event.
Look for some slight ridging Monday that will bring the temperatures up slightly. There will still be some clouds across the area and a couple of leftover showers in the San Gabriel Mountains, but it should be a dry day for the most part.
Overnight an upper level low moves into the west coast, and a large plume of moisture will be pulled in from the South. This will end up being somewhat of a conveyor belt of moisture into the Southland Tuesday. As the front pushes through in the middle of the day on Tuesday we will see the heaviest rainfall.
The grand totals Tuesday should range between 1 to 2 inches of rain in the basin and up to 4 inches in the foothill communities. The totals could even be higher in the higher elevations.
The National Weather Service has indicated they may be issuing some flash flood watches later Monday. The rain should slow down to showers by the evening and then linger to widely scattered showers by Wednesday morning.
Temperatures will remain at or slightly below average in the long term with several waves of energy moving into the west coast —those waves at this point look like they will be dry.