El Niño is here.
Rain storms influenced by a large El Niño off the Pacific Ocean that made landfall Monday in Southern California will not only continue the rest of this week but for the rest of the winter, meteorologists said.
Though rain totals dramatically tailed off Monday to less than a quarter of an inch due to dry, offshore flows, the El Niño weather pattern will carry four more storms into the region by Saturday, according to the U.