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The Tri-Counties gets drenched by a strong early season storm

A view looking through a car windshield at a freeway. Heavy rain is falling and visibility on the roadway is low.
Lance Orozco
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KCLU
Rain on Highway 101 in the Conejo Valley on Tuesday morning.

Coastal areas get up to 2" of rain, while some mountain areas end up with around 4".

An unusually strong October storm made a big splash in the Tri-Counties, but it is moving on from the region.

The storm did what forecasters expected, bringing one to two inches of rain to coastal and inland areas, and around four inches to some of our mountainous regions. Much of the rainfall came during the overnight hours Monday into Tuesday.

Rainfall totals include Thousand Oaks 1.8”, Oxnard 1.2”, Ventura 1.1", Santa Barbara .76", Buellton 2.2”, Oceano 1.2”, and San Luis Obispo 1.5”.

The heaviest rain was in the mountains, with 3.9” of rain on Ventura County’s Nordhoff Ridge and 2.4” on San Marcos Pass.

No significant flooding or debris flow issues were reported.

We could see scattered showers or two through the end of the day on Tuesday, but the storm system is leaving the area. There’s dry weather in the forecast for the rest of the week.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.