What’s the cloud forecast for the solar eclipse in Los Angeles?
LA TimesAndrew Mackno, 10, looks through a telescope at the Griffith Observatory on March 15. There are only expected to be a few small clouds in the Los Angeles area near the eastern San Gabriel Mountains, but even hikers on those peaks will still be able to catch the eclipse, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Kristan Lund. “People should have unblocked viewing of the solar eclipse.” According to calculations by NASA, areas to the south and east of Los Angeles will see about 50% obscuration — the moon shrouding half of the sun — while much of the rest of the state will see around 25%. L.A. is expected to see 48.6% obscuration around 11:12 a.m. A weather pattern that has sent a series of storms over California, pushed Los Angeles to a new two-year rain total not seen since the late 1800s. There’s about a 20% chance that Los Angeles will see another storm with about less than a tenth an inch of rain Friday night into Saturday night, but that’s still subject to change as it gets closer to the weekend.
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