Days of unrelenting rain in Southern California has triggered evacuations, mudslides and mass power outages across much of the region this week. It’s also broken records.
At Los Angeles International Airport, meteorologists recorded 1.88 inches of rain on Christmas Day, smashing the previous daily rainfall record of 1.60 inches set in 1971, according to the National Weather Service.
In Burbank, rainfall measured on Dec. 25 surpassed a decades-old record by more than an inch. Forecasters measured 4.52 inches of rain at Santa Barbara Airport, beating the previous Christmas Day record of 2.17 inches set in 1955…