Long Beach will escape the worst of next week’s rainstorms, forecasters say

Learn more about what El Niño means for Long Beach and how you can be prepared at LBPost.com/elnino. Support useful, community-centered reporting like this with a donation. Summer rains. Ripping waves. Wretched stretch of heat and humidity. After a year that’s so far seen every kind of weather, Long Beach may get a bit of a lucky break. Forecasters are projecting a couple of little storms but otherwise fair skies for us over the next week. Forecasts originally had Long Beach included in the string of Pacific storms that experts warned would bring heavy rain, high surf and potential flooding to the region from Thursday to next Saturday. But projections have dropped for Long Beach, according to Ryan Kittell, wth the National Weather Service in Oxnard. The risk of heavy rain in the city has fallen to “near zero,” he said Friday. Rain began Thursday and continued in scattered amounts Friday, combing for less than a quarter inch of total rainfall.

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