Light scattered showers came and went in Santa Barbara County’s South Coast Sunday with no major issues reported.
Residents prepared for impacts from tropical storm Hilary, which had been downgraded from a hurricane, but Office of Emergency Management Director Kelly Hubbard said Monday morning that she has not heard about any major concerns or problems.
“It was as we expected,” Hubbard said. “We were pretty confident that our storm systems were ready to receive the rain.”
A flood watch was issued for the foothills above the South Coast and for the interior mountains Sunday afternoon through Monday morning, but no watches or warnings from the National Weather Service were in effect as of Monday afternoon.
“Except for a slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms in the mountains today, clearing skies and drier weather expected today through the rest of the week,” the National Weather Service said in its area forecast discussion Monday morning.
According to the county’s rainfall and reservoir summary, the San Marcos Pass is the local spot that received the most rain from this storm at 0.68 inches.
While the rain bypassed most of North County, 0.32 inches of rain were reported in Carpinteria and Santa Barbara received about 0.28 inches of rain. Goleta recorded 0.27 inches of rain and Santa Ynez got 0.03 inches of rain.
Sunday’s rain brings the county’s “normal water-year” rainfall percentage to 202%.
The tropical storm delivered record-breaking rainfall for August to much of Southern California, the NWS said.
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