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Year's worth of rain in 1 week
29/01/2008 21:05 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Severe winter storms that battered downtown Los Angeles last week dumped more rain on the city than fell throughout the whole of 2007, National Weather Service figures showed on Tuesday.
A series of storms rolling in from the Pacific deluged southern California, with 17.3 centimetres of rain falling in Los Angeles in the space of seven days, according to weather service statistics.
The same rainfall measuring station received only 8.15 centimetres of rain throughout 2007, the city's driest year since records began. On average Los Angeles receives 38.4 centimetres of rain each year.
Last week's storms caused minor flooding through parts of Los Angeles while three skiers died in rare avalanches that struck mountainous areas to the north of the city.
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