Rain hits Los Angeles

Large storm-generated waves break just underneath the Manhattan Beach Pier.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

A surfer is viewed through a pattern of raindrops on a windshield in Newport Beach.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

“Why so serious?â€� asks Joker impersonator Mitchell Schonberner as tourists pass by him on Hollywood Boulevard next to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.  (Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times)

Vactioning from Japan, Rikuto Hagimoto, center, leads his little brother Louie, left, and his sister Ran, right, while they shop in the rain with their family at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Michael Van Camp protects his daughter Carolynn from the rain while the two enjoy a little father-daughter bonding time on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

With the store windows decorated for the holidays, Seal Beach resident Tatiana Chakko enjoys a warm cup of coffee on a rainy day inside Bogart’s Coffee House in Seal Beach.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)