Gissel Rossi of Los Angeles does last-minute shopping at the Citadel Outlets in City of Commerce on Dec. 24, 2025. The National Weather Service predicts 1 inch to 1½ inches of rain will fall on Los Angeles County’s coasts and valleys between midnight and noon on Friday, with 1½ inches to 4 inches in the mountains. “For downtown Los Angeles, the total rainfall of 2.59 inches of rain through noon today has made the Christmas Eve-Christmas Day holiday period the wettest since 3.24 inches fell in 1971,” the service said in another post. As of early Thursday afternoon, this year had already brought the fourth-wettest Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to the region since record-keeping began in 1877, according to another National Weather Service update . Additional rain through midnight could potentially see this year move higher up the rankings.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 26, 2025 14:18 UTC