Los Angeles is starting this weekend with tap water that is safe to drink and tightly monitored, but the real story is how much wetter – and more water‑secure – the city has suddenly become.

After one of the soggiest kickoffs to the rainy season in decades, the Los Angeles Almanac reports that downtown has already picked up nearly seven inches of rain since October 1, making this the wettest start to a rain year through November in 58 years. That early storm parade pushed seasonal rainfall to more than four times normal by the start of December, according to climate summaries compiled from National Weather Service data and Golden Gate Weather Services. The upside: hillsides are greener, wildfire risk is way down, and local reservoirs and groundwater basins have gotten a rare early‑season boost.

So what about the past couple of days? The National Weather Service office in Oxnard notes that no major rainstorms have hit Los Angeles since midweek, and preliminary precipitation tables for Los Angeles County show little to no measurable rain on Friday or Saturday. Instead, the city has slipped into a cool, dry pattern: highs in the mid‑60s, lows in the lower 50s, and just a few passing clouds. Forecasters told the Los Angeles Times there are no big rainmakers on the immediate horizon for early December, even after that record‑wet November.

Despite the current lull, the sky has already done a lot of heavy lifting. In a recent overview of the season, the Los Angeles Times highlighted how a string of potent atmospheric river storms in October and November soaked much of Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles logged nearly seven inches of rain since October 1, close to half of what it usually gets in an entire year, while Santa Barbara set a record for its wettest start to the water year. Scientists with the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes explained that just four or five of these atmospheric rivers can deliver an average Southern California rainy season, and we’ve already felt several of them.

On the drinking‑water side, the story is just as dramatic. Governing magazine reports that the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners voted this week to nearly double the output of the city’s big groundwater‑recharge recycling project. Instead of purifying 25 million gallons of wastewater per day, the plant is now being built to treat 45 million gallons daily, enough to supply roughly 500,000 people when it comes online in 2027. Board president Richard Katz said that once this advanced recycled water is flowing, Los Angeles will be able to stop diverting water from the Sierra Nevada streams that feed Mono Lake, easing decades of environmental tension while making the city more drought‑resilient.

Local advocates such as Los Angeles Waterkeeper call the expansion a massive achievement, because it turns what used to be treated sewage into a drought‑proof, purified local supply that meets or exceeds drinking‑water standards. Combined with the city’s ongoing shift away from coal‑fired power, highlighted in a recent announcement from Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, it marks a broader push to clean up both the water and the energy that keep Los Angeles running.

So, to sum up your weekend water snapshot: the taps are clean and closely tested, the storms have taken a breather after a record‑wet start, hills and reservoirs are still basking in that earlier bounty, and behind the scenes Los Angeles is investing billions in recycled water so future droughts bite a little less.

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