I went out to the car this morning and noticed a fast single-engine plane "scud-running" towards the mountains ringing the LA Basin. There were white "cumulo-puffs" (towering cumulo-nimbus clouds) lazily moving east (normal weather flow pattern restored).
There was ~70% overcast (constitutes a ceiling). These will NOT get over the mountains without dumping rain. (Warm, moist air rises; clouds swell & blacken; as clouds have to climb to cross the mountain range, they cool; cooling moisture condenses and PRECIPITATES!!! Meteorology 101 from Ground School).
By the time I got to work, it was drizzling and the windshield wipers were needed. So, the mountains will get wet, if we get any at all.
This will drop much needed rain where it is needed: the fires are in the mountains. But, the loss of ground cover will cause both flooding and landslides of loose soil.
Oh, well, the savior is to become the villain
Mustang
Of Orange County, CA.