Following light showers across the Los Angeles region Thursday morning, forecasters say Southern California can expect a reprieve — however short-lived — from recent rains.
A weak weather system moved down the Central Coast on Wednesday, hitting Los Angeles early Thursday, where it “caused a real deepening of the marine layer,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
“We did have some light showers and drizzle overnight,” Kittell said Thursday morning. “It was pretty widespread, but the amounts were pretty much a tenth of a inch or less.”
“We’re expecting that to be decreasing through the morning and be pretty much done by the afternoon,” he added. It’s unlikely that any continued showers would drastically increase rainfall totals, he said.
Come Friday, Kittell said there will be a dramatic shift in weather, with a dry, warming trend expected .