Record-Breaking Rainfall in Los Angeles: A Timeline and Impressive Totals

Storm Hilary, now a post-tropical cyclone, has brought historic rainfall, flooding, and mudslides to Los Angeles, breaking "virtually all" of the city's daily rainfall records. The storm made landfall along Mexico's Baja California Peninsula and moved through Tijuana, threatening improvised homes on the hillsides south of the U.S. border. Hilary is the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years and has caused power outages, flooded roadways, and downed trees. The National Hurricane Center expects "life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding" in parts of the southwestern U.S., with additional rainfall expected. Coastal warnings have been discontinued, and the storm is expected to dissipate later in the day.