As a record-breaking Christmas storm wraps up across Southern California, sunny skies are in store for the weekend before rain returns on New Year’s Day. The storm prompted the wettest Christmas Eve-Christmas Day recorded for downtown Los Angeles in 54 years, the National Weather Service said, with the area catching 2.79 inches.

The the region's latest atmospheric storm dumped 6 inches of rain in the Los Angeles area with up to 18 inches of rain in the mountains.

Rainfall from an atmospheric river this week slammed Southern California, resulting in freeway collisions, flooding, mudslides and a town where residents were trapped by water. The storm started Tuesday night,

On Christmas Day, torrential rain in Southern California set new records in Los Angeles, Burbank and Santa Barbara, federal forecasters said.

Christmas Day will bring cold and soggy conditions across Southern California as the second wave of a winter storm rolls through the region.

FOX Weather Correspondent Brandy Campbell is live from Los Angeles, California as heavy rains and floods threaten areas across Southern California.

Scientists attribute these extreme weather swings to climate change, warning of intensifying "hydroclimate whiplash" patterns globally.