UPDATED with latest: Even before the first drop of rain falls, the impacts of the coming storm are already beginning to be felt across Los Angeles.

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PREVIOUSLY at 4:18 p.m.: In a good news/bad news combo typical of life in Southern California, the first appreciable rain in more than six months will help provide some much-needed moisture before the fall fire season, but also potentially cause mudflows around the burn scars from last season’s massive fires .

With 1.5 inches of rain forecast to fall in Los Angeles later today — and 2-4 inches in the mountains and foothills — officials have issued evacuation warnings for debris flows near recent burn areas from 10 p.m. tonight to 6 a.m. Wednesday. Residents in the areas burned this year in the Palisades Fire , the Eaton Fi

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