As seen from Signal Hill, lightning strike over Long Beach Friday night, as storm passed through, bringing rain, thunder and lightning. Friday, October 12, 2018. Photo by Stephen Carr.

Long Beach skies got an epic light show as thunderstorms and rain covered the region Friday night and Saturday morning.

Approximately 0.47 inches of rain fell so far in Long Beach, according to the National Weather Service.

But the rain won’t last all day; it’s expected to ease up around 2 p.m. and stay mostly cloudy the rest of the day. As for temperature, Long Beach can expect highs near 72 degrees and lows of 62 degrees.

The storm caused scattered power outages throughout the region.

In Long Beach, SoCal Edison reported there were more than 100 customers in various neighborhoods who were without electricity Saturday morning because of lightning strikes.

Friday night football was impacted from the rain. The Poly vs Jordan game was canceled two minutes into the second quarter. The Compton vs Lakewood game was postponed until Saturday after one quarter. And the Millikan vs Cabrillo and St. Anthony vs St. Genevieve games were still playing after delays.

Lightning in Long Beach. Photo courtesy Nicky Smith.
Lightning in Long Beach. Photo courtesy Nicky Smith.

Elsewhere, the Department of Water and Power reported approximately 6,000 customers across Los Angeles were without power, down from 10,000 at the height of the outage, and crews were working to restore electricity to the remaining customers, in most cases by noon.

At least 8,300 customers across Los Angeles County were without power, many along the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, according to Edison.The utility estimated most customers will be back online later today.

Nearly four-tenths of an inch of rain was reported in Bel Air and at UCLA, according to the National Weather Service. Downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills both received about three-tenths of an inch of rain.

Lightning could be seen and thunder heard across a wide swath of the region and rain began falling in Downtown Los Angeles about 7:30 p.m. Friday after several flashes of lightning.

Rain and lightning were also reported in Orange County. Lightning was blamed for fires in Santa Ana, an unincorporated area near Orange and the Los Alamitos Joint Air Base, where four Orange County Fire Authority and two base companies worked to extinguish up to 10 palm trees that caught fire following strikes, according to OCFA Capt. Steve Concialdi.

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