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This November has also been the wettest at Santa Barbara Airport since records began being tracked in 1941, according to meteorologist John Dumas of the weather service’s Oxnard office.

The downpour was so heavy because it pulled in moisture all the way from Hawaii as it rotated, said Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

By Saturday afternoon it had dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain across the greater Los Angeles area, with as much as 8 inches of rain falling in some areas, meteorologists said.

Iranian meteorologists reported there was some rainfall in the west and northwest of the country on Saturday - with video showing snowfall on a ski resort north of Tehran for the first time this year.

This type of storm, dreaded by meteorologists because it’s so unpredictable, spins like a top and could stall above Southern California for longer than a typical storm.