Triple-digit winds, record rainfall: California’s storm by the numbers

The slowmoving atmospheric river still battering California on Tuesday unleashed record rainfall, triple- digit winds and hundreds of mudslides.

Here is the historic storm by the numbers:

Downtown LA

In just two days, downtown Los Angeles got soaked by more than 7 inches of rain — nearly half of the 14.25 inches it normally gets per year.

That’s according to the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office, which has records dating back to 1877.

February tends to be one of the city’s rainier months. Only six days into the month, it is already the 13th wettest February on record.

Rainiest spots

Downtown Los Angeles wasn’t the only spot that received colossal amounts of rain. About 12 miles to the northwest, the hills of Bel Air got more than a foot — 12.01 inches — between Sunday and Tuesday morning.

Several other locations in Los Angeles County received nearly a foot of rain during the same three-day span, including Sepulveda Canyon, Topanga Canyon, Cogswell Dam and Woodland Hills.

Wind

A gust of 102 mph (164 kph) was recorded Sunday at Pablo Point, at an elevation of 932 feet, in Marin

County, just north of San Francisco.

While just missing the December 1995 record of 103 mph at Angel Island, “102 is very, very impressive,” said meteorologist Nicole Sarment at the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office.

The top 10 strongest gusts — between 102 and 89 mph — recorded at the height of the weekend’s winds were all in Marin and nearby Santa Clara County, the weather service said. Gusts above 80 mph were also recorded in Napa and Monterey counties.

Other wind readings Sunday included 77 mph at the San Francisco airport, 61 mph at the Oakland airport and 59 mph at the San Jose airport.

Mudslides

By Tuesday morning crews had responded to more than 380 mudslides across Los Angeles, according to the mayor’s office. The mudslides closed roads across the city and prompted ongoing evacuation orders in canyon neighborhoods with burn scars from recent wildfires.

That number could rise because rain was still falling, saturating already sodden hillsides that threatened to give way.

So far seven buildings have been deemed uninhabitable, the city said. And at least 10 were yellow-tagged, meaning residents could go back to get their belongings but could not stay there because of the damage. Inspections were ongoing at dozens more properties.