The latest storm to drench the region made this the fourth-wettest February on record in downtown Los Angeles. As of Wednesday morning, downtown LA received 12.56 inches of rain so far this month.
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That's just more than an inch away from the wettest February on record in downtown LA of 13.68 inches set in 1998.
This February checks in at No. 7 on the list of wettest calendar months in downtown LA, tied with January 1995. It is the wettest month in 26 years.
The wettest month ever in downtown LA was December 1889, when records show a staggering 15.80 inches of rainfall.
Downtown LA received 1.99 inches of rain from Saturday through early Wednesday. The system is moving out of Los Angeles County, but another storm Sunday and Monday is expected to add to the region's historic rainfall totals.
The five-day rainfall is in addition to a storm in early February that brought days of wet weather to Southern California and shattered several rain records.
Elsewhere around LA, 9.97 inches of rain were reported this month at Los Angeles International Airport. That makes this February the fifth-wettest at the airport since 1944 when records began. The wettest February at LAX was in 1998 at 13.79 inches of rainfall.
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Vehicles drive through the rain on the 101 Freeway on February 19, 2024.
People walk in the rain on Hollywood Boulevard on Feb. 19, 2024 in Los Angeles. Credit: Getty
Mulholland Drive is closed due to landslides on Monday Feb. 19, 2024.
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Mulholland Drive is closed due to landslides on Monday Feb. 19, 2024.
A backyard was underwater Feb. 5, 2024 in Sherman Oaks after steady rain. Credit: Chris Sturm
A backyard was underwater Feb. 5, 2024 in Sherman Oaks after steady rain. Credit: Chris Sturm
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A backyard was underwater Feb. 5, 2024 in Sherman Oaks after steady rain.
Studio City, CA – February 05:Storm damage from mud, rock and debris flows along Lockridge road in Studio City, CA, has caused major damage to vehicles and houses in the area on Monday, February 5, 2024. Rain is expected to continue in Southern California over the next 12 hours. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
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Studio City, CA – February 05:Storm damage from mud, rock and debris flows along Lockridge road in Studio City, CA, has caused major damage to vehicles and houses in the area on Monday, February 5, 2024. Rain is expected to continue in Southern California over the next 12 hours. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
Studio City, CA – February 05:Storm damage from mud, rock and debris flows along Lockridge road in Studio City, CA, has caused major damage to vehicles and houses in the area on Monday, February 5, 2024. Rain is expected to continue in Southern California over the next 12 hours. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
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Studio City, CA – February 05:Storm damage from mud, rock and debris flows along Lockridge road in Studio City, CA, has caused major damage to vehicles and houses in the area on Monday, February 5, 2024. Rain is expected to continue in Southern California over the next 12 hours. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
Studio City, CA – February 05:Storm damage from mud, rock and debris flows along Lockridge road in Studio City, CA, has caused major damage to vehicles and houses in the area on Monday, February 5, 2024. Rain is expected to continue in Southern California over the next 12 hours. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
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Crews remove a downed tree in Long Beach Monday Feb. 5, 2024.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 04: People attending the Grammy’s run between the red carpet and a parking garage as another storm bears down at L.A. Live in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: A person walks along a flooded street as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, impacts California on February 4, 2024 in Santa Barbara, California. The storm is delivering potential for widespread flooding, landslides and power outages while dropping heavy rain and snow across the region. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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People stand in floodwater during a storm in Santa Barbara, California, US, on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Hurricane-force winds whipped the seas off California, while heavy rains raised flood risks from San Francisco to San Diego, as another powerful Pacific storm arrived on the state’s doorstep. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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A person rides a bike through floodwater during a storm in Santa Barbara, California, US, on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Hurricane-force winds whipped the seas off California, while heavy rains raised flood risks from San Francisco to San Diego, as another powerful Pacific storm arrived on the state’s doorstep. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Stearns Wharf is shut down as the second and more powerful of two atmospheric river storms arrives to Santa Barbara, California on Feb. 4, 2024.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 04: Nate Stephenson takes photos of a boat which washed ashore as a powerful long-duration atmospheric river storm, the second in less than a week, impacts California on February 4, 2024 in Santa Barbara, California. The storm is delivering potential for widespread flooding, landslides and power outages while dropping heavy rain and snow across the region. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Wind blown palm trees during a storm in Santa Barbara, California, US, on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. Hurricane-force winds battered the seas off California, while heavy rains raised flood risks from San Francisco to San Diego, as another powerful Pacific storm arrived on the state’s doorstep. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Ryan Coppenger, right, and Scott Larson, with the City of Long Beach ;Marine Bureau, collect bags of sand to be delivered to a lifeguard station that usually floods in preparations for upcoming storm in Long Beach on February 3, 2024. Coppenger and Larson also delivered sandbags to residents who needed them. Officials across Southern California are warning residents to prepare for what could be “life threatening and damaging flooding,” beginning Sunday. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Clouds before the storm in Yorba Linda.
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Water from heavy rains race down the LA River, carrying debris like this shopping cart with it. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
LONG BEACH, CA – JANUARY 31, 2024 – – Belmont Shore resident Don Kallenberg, 68, carries away sand bags to prep for any possible flooding from the upcoming storm at 72nd Place Lifeguard Station in Long Beach on January 31, 2024. Long Beach lifeguard Molica Anderson, 37, left, filled sandbags for residents. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
A man sweeps floodwater inside his barbershop during a rain storm in Long Beach, California, on February 1, 2024. The US West Coast was getting drenched February 1, 2024 as the first of two powerful storms moved in, part of a “Pineapple Express” weather pattern that was washing out roads and sparking flood warnings. (Photo by David SWANSON / AFP) (Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Long Beach , CA – February 01: Portions of the 710 Freeway was closed due to flooding in Long Beach on Thursday, February 1, 2024. (Photo by Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)
Long Beach, CA – February 01: A man swims chest-deep through flood waters with his cell phone near three cars that are submerged after rain flooded several areas of Long Beach from the first in a series of storms hits Southern California in the 2300 block of West Willow Street in Long Beach Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Cars sit partially submerged on a flooded road during a rain storm in Long Beach, California, on February 1, 2024. The US West Coast was getting drenched February 1, 2024 as the first of two powerful storms moved in, part of a “Pineapple Express” weather pattern that was washing out roads and sparking flood warnings. (Photo by David SWANSON / AFP) (Photo by DAVID SWANSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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Raindrops sit on a telescope at Griffith Observatory as storm clouds linger over the Los Angeles basin on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
At Long Beach Airport, 11.88 inches of rainfall have been recorded this month, making it the second-wettest February since 1958. The all-time wettest February at the airport was 1998 with 12.09 inches. It is the third-wettest month on record at the airport.
At Hollywood Burbank Airport, February has delivered 11.55 inches of rain. That's sixth on the list of wettest Februaries, just about 4 inches shy of the monthly rainfall record of 15.52 inches in 1998.
The storms have saturated hillsides and caused several damaging landslides around Los Angeles, including along Mulholland Drive and in nearby neighborhoods.
