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Residents were warned before dawn Friday of flash flooding of streets, creeks and streams and in parts of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Some vehicles were stuck in floodwaters near Culver City before dawn, the weather service reported.

In coastal Huntington Beach, rainwater rushed through streets like a stream, and one neighborhood flooded after a local pond overflowed, spilling water into the streets and trapping parked cars.

By midday, the rain had passed through the coastal region and the sun was shining as the storm shifted east over the mountains, dropping about 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of snow in the resort community of Big Bear with the potential for more into Saturday, said Sebastian Westerink, a meteorologist for the ��ɫtv Weather Service in San Diego.

“It is certainly possible we’re going to see a few inches overnight,” Westerink said.

No major damage was reported from the latest storm, Westerink said.

The rain was welcomed in a state prone to periods of drought and that relies on precipitation each winter for water as the weather warms into the spring. Since October, California has received much more rainfall than usual, pushing major reservoir levels higher, state water officials said.

In a normal November, downtown Los Angeles typically gets 0.78 of an inch (2 centimeters) of rain, but has already seen about 3.5 inches (8.9 centimeters) this month.

Santa Barbara County also has been a magnet for the moisture. Parts of the Santa Ynez Mountains have seen more than 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain this month, the weather service said.

A potent atmospheric river is blamed for causing at least a half-dozen deaths earlier this month as it rolled across much of the state. Heavy rains also bring in areas that were recently ravaged by wildfire.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes.