Four days of on-again, off-again rain and strong wind continued to snarl rush-hour traffic, trigger mudslides, flood intersections and inflict scattered power outages Monday, but the National Weather Service said relief was in sight.
Only a 20% chance of rain has been forecast for the next few days, although that will rise again to 50% by late Friday.
Downtown Los Angeles has received almost 2 inches of rain since Thursday night, about 13% of its annual average, said meteorologist Todd Hall of the weather service's Los Angeles office.
Mudslides blocked trails and threatened to overflow barriers in Sierra Madre, and a rain-induced rock slide occurred near Mountain Center in Riverside County.
