SoCal weather to take Florida turn this week

Remnants from a tropical storm bring a chance of thunder and flash flooding.

- GRACE TOOHEY

GENARO MOLINA Los Angeles Times A WOMAN walks in the warm weather at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area.

Southern California could feel more like Florida the rest of this week, forecasters said, as moisture from a dissipated tropical storm in the eastern Pacific shifts north, boosting humidity and the chance for unstable weather — including flash floods — in the region.

“The next several days, we're getting the remnants of the energy from Tropical Storm Mario,” said Rich Thompson, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard. “It’s giving us this threat of thunderstorms.”

Those storms could create fires from dry-lightning strikes or flash floods and debris flows depending on how strong they turn out to be, the National Weather Service warned.