LB Gets Rain w/ Lightning In Monday a.m. Downpour

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(March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.) -- LBREPORT.com readers knew it was coming: Monday morning (March 7) dawned with rain, lightning/thunder and a brief but intense downpour as the first wave of a second storm passed through.

As seen LIVE on LBREPORT.com with in-motion Nat'l Weather Service Doppler Radar, shortly before 6 a.m. a band of intense rainstorms (with thunderstorms embedded) stretched from L.A. and the southbay extending into PV/LB and OC, approaching from the west and headed due east.

Shortly before 6 a.m., the National Weather Service issued a Special Marine Warning...and shortly after 6:30 a.m., issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning (yellow boxed area.)

NWS Doppler Radar screen save, 6:46 a.m. March 7, 2016

LBCC's Physical Sciences weather station recorded 0.17" of rain this morning; it was intense but brief. The weather station recorded 0.44" in the first storm on Sunday...so there's been 0.61" from the pair of storms thus far.

The National Weather Service forecasts continued showers on Monday with possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4 p.m.