Los Angeles to get a reprieve from wet weather

Angelenos won't need their umbrellas this week.  

Although L.A. skies will be partly cloudy, the only wet weather being predicted for the Southland could come on Wednesday night, in the form of a small storm that will rumble through and yield just a quarter of an inch of rain.

Residents living in the mountains could see an inch of snow on the ground from that storm, according to the National Weather Service.

Since October 1, Los Angeles has gotten 3.75 inches of rain, National Weather Service meteorologist David Sweet told KPCC.

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"That falls a little short of the normal value, which is 4.95, and that's because during the fall months, our rainfall was quite a bit below normal. We weren't getting hardly any rain at all. But in just the first 10 days of October, we have recovered quite a bit, so we're currently 1.20 inches below normal,” Sweet said.

In this case, "normal" means the average of all rainfall totals over the last three decades.

Sweet said the only significant event in the National Weather Service forecast for the coming week is a high surf advisory in effect for the Central Coast, north of Point Conception.