As much as 7 inches of rain fell on parts of Southern California, leaving the region vulnerable to floods and mudslides as the rain eases and moves north.
Tropical Storm Hilary poured rain across Southern California throughout Sunday night, leaving millions of people at flood risk, thousands of homes without power and the country’s second-largest school district closed.
The first tropical storm to hit the region in nine decades dropped as much as 7 inches of rainwater in some mountain regions and up to 4 inches in lower lying areas.
Early Monday, officials reclassified the storm as a post-tropical cyclone. The center of the story is expected to travel north through Nevada today. Officials in Las Vegas warned of wind gusts of up to 75 miles per hour. Flash flood warnings will remain in effect there until 7 a.m. PDT.
The storm traveled from northern Baja California in Mexico into the United States, drenching California along the coast, in the mountains, and in the Coachella Valley, home to the desert city of Palm Springs.
