After dumping more than three and a half inches of rain in parts of the Santa Clarita Valley, a stormfront is heading out of the area, according to Thursday’s forecast.
“The main rain band has moved off and to the east,” said Lisa Phillips, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, in a phone conversation Thursday.
There will be some lingering impacts, including some cooler temperatures, possibly impacting the area until Friday morning.
“We do have some lingering scattered showers over the area, and some winds as well,” she said.
She added that there would still also likely be some remaining snow seen at lower-than-normal altitudes, such as 3,000 to 4,000 feet.
Phillips shared the 24-hour totals late Thursday, after the bulk of the storm had passed, which indicated how scattered the showers have been for the region.
On the west side of the SCV: two separate observation points in Castaic reported a range from .35 to .58 inches; .6 inches was reported at the Newhall Pass; compared to .71 inches at the Powerhouse Station in Saugus; and .96 inches in Sand Canyon.
Emergency responders issued several warnings Friday as weather satellites began to see a storm that moved in Sunday night.
The rainfall totals since Monday available from the National Weather Service website also varied based on where the reading was taken: the Newhall Pass observation station reported 3.58 inches, a high for the area; while Castaic reported 2.77 inches; the Powerhouse Station read 1.59 inches; and Sand Canyon caught about 3.3 inches.
This past week’s storm had much less rainfall, although much colder temperatures than one that hit the area at the end of December.
That storm from Christmas to Dec. 29 dropped anywhere from 6 to 8 inches of rain in the SCV, according to the NWS, with Newhall recording the region’s high of 8.5 inches and the Canyon Country area totaling about the same as Saugus, around 6.2 inches.
