{"id":104918,"date":"2025-12-22T14:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104918\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:16:12","slug":"biggest-christmas-storm-in-years-set-to-hit-socal-a-timeline-for-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/104918\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Christmas storm in years set to hit SoCal: A timeline for the week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Pineapple Express storm could deliver one of Southern California\u2019s stormiest Christmases in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>The basicsThe storm is expected to deliver 4 to 8 inches of rain between Tuesday and Saturday throughout most of Los Angeles County, Orange County and the Inland Empire. <br \/>The High Desert could see 2 to 3 inches of rain. But the most precipitation \u2014 6 to 12 inches \u2014 is expected to fall over parts of Southern California\u2019s mountain ranges, which could trigger mudslides and debris flows in recent burn scars.<br \/>Between Tuesday and Thursday, numerous areas have a high chance of seeing 3 or more inches of rain. There\u2019s a 77% chance of that occurring in Anaheim and Yorba Linda, a 74% chance in Santa Ana, a 73% chance in Ontario, a 71% chance in Mission Viejo, a 69% chance in Irvine, a 68% chance in Chino, a 65% chance in Laguna Niguel and a 60% chance in San Clemente.<br \/>There\u2019s an 80% chance downtown Los Angeles will get 2 or more inches of rain from Tuesday through Christmas Day. The last time downtown got 2 or more inches of rain over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was in 1971.   <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There is the potential for a major Atmospheric River storm system to impact the region this holiday week. Here are the latest details on rain amounts and potential impacts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Imbvw8Ab3C\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Imbvw8Ab3C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Los Angeles (@NWSLosAngeles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSLosAngeles\/status\/2002528627720626411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 20, 2025<\/a>     Timing<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday: Rain begins in the region, getting worse through the day and night. <\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: The latest weather models show the region\u2019s heaviest rainfall totals \u2014 from a half an inch to 1 inch per hour \u2014 could occur between midnight Tuesday and noon Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday: Rain continues on Christmas Day, but with less intensity in the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>Friday: Some rain will still be possible.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pineapple Express storm could deliver one of Southern California\u2019s stormiest Christmases in recent memory. The basicsThe storm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[56852,7,9,8,320,43668,59,63,62,10263,15193,1009,56853,2429,37669,68,316,430],"class_list":["post-104918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-big-christmas-storm","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chance","tag-christmas-day","tag-inch","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-rain","tag-region","tag-socal","tag-southern-california","tag-stormy-christmas","tag-thursday","tag-timeline","tag-tuesday","tag-wednesday","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}