--- description: Two more storms are forecast for Wednesday and Thursday title: String of Storms Hitting California Due to Strongest El Niño on Record image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a17eadef2b3bba4/698877bf3c1639c17645b6d9/gettyimages-503500628.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # String of Storms Hitting California Due to Strongest El Niño on Record by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 6, 2016 7:41 AM CUT  Traffic has been snarled across the area as a big storm hits in what is predicted to be a strong El Nino event in Southern California Jan.5, 2016. Traffic has been snarled across the area as a big storm hits in what is predicted to be a strong El Nino event in Southern California Jan.5, 2016.Rick Loomis—L.A. Times/Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 6, 2016 7:41 AM CUT Back-to-back storms in the Pacific are threatening to douse parts of the West for more than two weeks, thanks to an El Niño weather system that is tied with the strongest ever on record. Storms drenched California Tuesday, with 1.42 inches of rain recorded at Los Angeles International Airport, breaking a daily record set in 1979, National Weather Service. Santa Monica got nearly 1.5 inches of rain and Malibu got 1.76 inches over the last 24 hours as of 4 p.m. local time (7 p.m. ET), the NWS said. Two more storms are forecast for Wednesday and Thursday, and could… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/string-storms-hitting-california-due-strongest-el-nino-record-n490506?cid=par-time%5F20160106 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4168985/storms-california-el-nino/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4168985/storms-california-el-nino/"},"headline":"String of Storms Hitting California Due to Strongest El Niño on Record","datePublished":"2016-01-06T07:41:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:48:57.846Z","description":"Two more storms are forecast for Wednesday and Thursday","url":"https://time.com/4168985/storms-california-el-nino/","keywords":["weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a17eadef2b3bba4/698877bf3c1639c17645b6d9/gettyimages-503500628.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a17eadef2b3bba4/698877bf3c1639c17645b6d9/gettyimages-503500628.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Flooding Closes Roads, Hampers Commuters","caption":"Flooding Closes Roads, Hampers Commuters","creditText":"Rick Loomis—L.A. Times/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4168985/storms-california-el-nino/","name":"String of Storms Hitting California Due to Strongest El Niño on Record"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Know Right Now: This Year’s El Nino Could be Strongest Ever","description":"Know Right Now: This Year’s El Nino Could be Strongest Ever","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/XMZjHhry/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-08-14T13:57:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/XMZjHhry.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4168985/storms-california-el-nino/","duration":"PT1M5S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4168985/storms-california-el-nino/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```