Kay was about 250 miles southwest of San Diego as of Saturday morning. “We’re also expecting a slight chance of thunderstorms each afternoon as well with all that leftover tropical moisture” as Kay starts to move out of the area, Oswant said. “Showers are most likely in the mountains, but could drift west into the valleys or east into the deserts at times.” In San Diego County, “we’re going to see scattered showers lingering across the area” on Sunday and Monday, said Casey Oswant, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego. “That’s something we’ll be looking at closer today.” Thunderstorms on Sunday “may be slower moving than today,” which ramps up the risk of flooding if rains continue to pound the same areas, said Robbie Munroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Los Angeles. A flash flood watch was in effect Saturday for mountain and desert areas in Los Angeles, Ventura and San Diego counties as well as in the Inland Empire. Lingering rains from Kay’s remnants are raising concerns about possible flooding in Southern California on Sunday and early into the week, according to the National Weather Service.įorecasters are eyeing the area for thunderstorms, especially in the interior mountain and desert areas where the wet weather is expected to remain longest. “This is particularly true with the first rain after an extended period of time, and especially after the dry conditions like the kind the region has seen as a result of the drought.” “The most frequent cause of power outages during heavy rain and wind storms is flying debris, like tree branches and palm fronds, that can make contact with power lines, resulting in outages,” the department said. The department attributed the outages to wind and rain from the storm and said on Twitter that its crews had been working through the night, with an estimated response time of 12 to 24 hours from when an outage began.
“They’re going to work around the clock until all power is restored.” “Crews are working incredibly hard and as fast as they can,” Rose Wong said. More than 24,000 people had their power out as of midmorning Saturday, and another 30,000 people had gotten their power restored after outages in the past 24 hours that had ranged from minutes to hours, said Mia Rose Wong, a public relations specialist with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. In the Los Angeles area, tens of thousands of people were affected by power outages as of Saturday morning, including households in Pico-Union, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Harvard Heights and other areas scattered across the city from Reseda to San Pedro. Still, he added, the heavy rains presented certain hazards for firefights, “as far as possible downed trees.”
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