Summer Showers Delight L.A. Residents

Monsoonal moisture brought warm, muggy weather and even some scattered showers to parts of Los Angeles Thursday.

Only a few hundredths of an inch of rain fell in most places, including at the Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles International Airport and Hollywood Bowl, National Weather Service meteorologists said.

There's a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms early Friday morning, then a cooling trend will begin over the weekend, according to the Weather Service.

Forecasters said to expect temperatures a bit below normal early next week "as a trough of low pressure becomes established over the West Coast."

On Twitter, some residents relished and also poked fun at the change of weather:

Jason Rohrer @RohrerWrites

Rain in Los Angeles is socks at Christmas - defeats the purpose of the   exercise.

Kajon Cermak ‏@KajonKCRW

I love, *breathing in deeply*, the smell of wet pavement from a summer rain....

Amy Mousepants ‏@politicsofamy

I know. I love it! RT @exposeliberals: wow starting to rain. Never rains in L.A. in July

Joanna ‏@bookgirl01

Summer rain shower, with a thunderstorm promised for tomorrow. I could get used to this.

The Weather Services had issued a special weather statement for possible thunderstorms Thursday for the county's local coastal areas.

These "somewhat rare" summertime nocturnal thunderstorms result from a combination of upper level disturbance moving over coastal waters, as well as plenty of mid level monsoonal moisture and an unstable atmosphere, meteorologists said.