LA gets most Christmas rain since 1971 and another storm is coming for New Year’s Day

As a record-breaking Christmas storm wraps up across Southern California, sunny skies are in store for the weekend before rain returns on New Year’s Day.

The storm prompted the wettest Christmas Eve-Christmas Day recorded for downtown Los Angeles in 54 years, the National Weather Service said, with the area catching 2.79 inches.

Other Los Angeles spots actually broke records, with the wettest two-day totals for the holiday: Woodland Hills collected 4.64 inches, while near UCLA 3.10...