A light rain fell in Long Beach Monday morning. The impacts of the atypical weather sprinkled across campus at Cal State Long Beach.
The shuttles were packed with students who opted to ride, rather than walk across campus while the drizzle came down.
Stuart Seto with the National Weather Service said that the weather would likely clear up by Monday evening. He attributed the weather to Tropical Storm Norbert, from Mexico’s Baja Peninsula.
Seto said that Long Beach had 0.11 inches of rain on Monday morning.
The AccuWeather.com forecast reported that by Tuesday, the clouds would yield to the sun, and the weather would be at a high of 83 degrees.
“People are driving here more carefully,” Rios said.
University Bookstore cashier manager Steve Espinosa said the rain was a little unexpected.
“We just replenished our umbrella stock,” Espinosa said. “If people need it, they’d be right there for them.”
The University Student Union was filled with people in the morning during the drizzle.
“It’s a lot busier than any other day when it’s not raining,” USU Information Center employee Cassandra Valdespino said. “I think 50 percent of the people that are in here won’t be in here later.”
The Starbucks in the campus food court had a line out the door in the late morning, but they may not have been due to the rain. Starbucks barista Crystal Celine-Perez, 18, said the line is always the same, regardless of the weather.
“It gets packed around mid-morning to the afternoon,” Celine-Perez said. “So this isn’t abnormal.”
Michelle Oiwake, a 26-year-old interior design major said she is very happy about the rain. She just returned from New York where it was much more humid.
“This is nice coming back to California and the rain,” Oiwake said. When asked if the rain slowed her commute to campus, she said she “parked really close to the shuttle station so it hasn’t affected me.”
Other students on campus were less excited than Oiwake about the surprising rain. Senior liberal studies major Karen Rivera said she was 10 minutes late to class because of the rain.
“I wasn’t expecting rain,” Rivera said. “I forgot my umbrella, and I’ve noticed not many people were prepared.”