Rose Parade could see rain for first time in 20 years

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- If you've got plans to spell to the Rose Parade successful Pasadena this year, bring your poncho due to the fact that it could rainfall during the parade for the archetypal clip successful 20 years.

Rain chances volition make starting New Year's Eve and are acceptable to summation the adjacent 2 days. The past clip it rained during the parade was successful 2006.

WATCH | Despite the expected rain, Rose Parade floats are astir ready

"That is decidedly imprinted close connected my head," recalled Stefan Pollack with Artistic Entertainment Services, which is gathering astir fractional of the floats successful this year's parade. "Anybody who was determination remembers that infinitesimal due to the fact that it was torrential that day, but the parade went connected and it was a beauteous parade conscionable similar this 1 volition be."

Organizers and volunteers are ready. Plus, past week's tempest didn't interaction the operation of the floats since that's each done indoors.

Mary McCormick and her hubby Larry are among the hundreds of volunteers who are helping bring the floats to life.

"It seems similar to maine that there's inactive truthful overmuch enactment to beryllium done, but the hours that radical enactment in, it'll beryllium a agelong mates of days earlier everybody is each done and acceptable to battalion it up," Mary said.

Artistic Entertainment Services has wholly transformed the Rosemont Pavilion adjacent the Rose Bowl into a float-decorating farm.

"It is an organized chaos to decorate each 16 of these floats, but it is organized," said Pollack, who said if it does rain, it volition conscionable adhd a small much value to the floats.

"Hopefully, we're going to support the rainfall away, but if it does come, these floats are built to withstand a small other weight," helium said. "So the flowers volition sorb similar they bash successful quality and volition conscionable instrumentality connected 5% much weight."

Among the interval entries is Travel South Dakota, which hopes to beforehand tourism successful their state.

"There's thing amended than the Rose Parade, and conscionable the tone of the Rose Parade and the optimism and the happiness that this parade evokes," said James Hagen, South Dakota's Secretary of Tourism.

Fans, however, volition apt amusement up to the parade - rainfall oregon shine.

"The flowers volition instrumentality it," said Larry McCormick. "Everything is glued connected bully capable and each the roses are successful are tubes. They're poked into the Styrofoam. It'll withstand the rain."

"We worked hard capable connected it," Mary added. "If not, we'll beryllium retired determination patching and doing what we can, but I deliberation it'll withstand the rain."

As you prepare, the metropolis of Pasadena is reminding radical that umbrellas are not permitted on the parade way due to the fact that they artifact the presumption for others.

You tin ticker the afloat Rose Parade connected New Year's Day starting astatine 8 a.m. connected ABC7.