This weekend is already a wet one in Southern California, with the region bearing the brunt of a storm set to dump a considerable amount of rainfall and potentially lead to flooding, mudslides and traffic impacts.
Forecasters and Doppler radar projections indicate that up to half-an-inch of rain could fall in just 30 minutes in some spots during the course of the storm. Officials with the National Weather Service (NWS) advised that Saturday will likely be the day with the most intense rainfall for most of SoCal.
In the NWS area forecast discussion on Friday night, weather experts noted that the system bringing widespread precipitation is “unusually strong.”…