Photo via Edal Anton Lefterov (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
Photo via Edal Anton Lefterov (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Western Los Angeles County appeared to have gotten the heaviest rain Saturday, as most areas were dry but some soaked.

One backyard weather gauge near Zuma Beach got an unofficial .70 inches of rain Saturday.

Downpours were hit and miss across the Southland Saturday, with much of the area remaining below trace amounts of rainfall.

Rain gauges operated by Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Works detected .31 inches of rain as of 4 p.m. at an unofficial, remote control rain gauge above Decker Canyon in western Malibu.

Other L.A. County totals included:

– Upper Malibu Canyon, .29 inches;

– Sepulveda Basin, .24;

– Hansen Dam, .32;

– Flintridge, .16; and

– Descanso Gardens, .28 inches.

In central L.A., .16 inches was recorded at USC, and .11 near the Civic Center, according to the county’s rain gauges.

—City News Service

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