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Monthly reports for the Northern California 2018-19 rainy season.

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elagache:
Dear WeatherCat drought watchers,

Continuing the annual tradition, here is the first report from Canebas Weather Station regarding the Northern California rainy season.  October only brought 0.02" of rain, so it wasn't worth reporting.  However, November was a different story.  We received 5.41" of rain (137mm).  That was basically sufficient to catch us up for the entire rain season thus far.  This can be easily seen on the graph:



Of course lots of a rain in a very short period of time doesn't have the same effect as gentle rains over a longer period of time.  However, in the drought-parched West, we'll take any rain we can get!

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

elagache:
Dear WeatherCat Drought watchers,

Another month is at a close so it is time to tally up the precipitation and see were Canebas Weather Station is at with respect to normal.  Alas the news isn't so good.  December has been unusually cool and dry.  Storms have been few and not as "juicy" with the exception of one atmospheric river event.  As a result we only received 2.66" of rain (67.6 mm.)  That is only 75% of the normal rainfall for December.



Because December is an important rainfall month in Northern California, the cumulative numbers are also hurting.  We are down to only 79% of what would be to date a normal season.  The shortfall isn't to extreme yet, but the overall trend is disturbingly similar to recent years.  Instead of rain falling steadily throughout the wet season, we are increasingly reliant on atmospheric river events to bring extreme rains in short periods of time.  This trend has resulted in more rain during the mid-seasons and less during the middle of winter when California normally receives the bulk of its rains.  January is a new month of a new year.  The Climate Prediction Center medium range forecasts are the moment encouraging.  Alas, the drought worries are definitely back.

Oh well, . . . . . Edouard

elagache:
Dear WeatherCat Drought watchers,

Another month is at a close so it is time to tally up the precipitation and see were Canebas Weather Station is at with respect to normal.  January has been kinder to us.  We picked up a small amount of rain overnight and that was enough to bring over normal for the month: 101% !!



Since January is one of our wettest months, getting the normal rainfall had a positive effect on the cumulative totals.  We are now caught up to 94% of what we could normally through the end of January.  More rain is expected for the start of Feburary so for the moment we are looking at what will hopefully be a rationing free year for the second year in a row.

We shall see!

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

Blicj11:
Good news for the drought, and we could use some good news on that subject.

elagache:
Dear Western United States drought watchers,

February is essentially at an end.  No more rain is expected today so I can cheat and post this report a day early.  As you may have noticed from the reports of flooding around the Russian River area, Northern California ended up getting a lot of rain from multiple Atmospheric River events.  Being in the San Francisco East Bay,Canebas Weather station picked up a more modest 7.45" of rain (189 mm) this month.  Nonetheless, That made it the third wettest February ever recorded at the station and represents 157% of normal.  Here is the graph:



As can be seen on the cumulative graph, we are caught up but not by all that much - 109%.  So we shall need the rains to keep coming to avoid falling back behind in the spring.

Cheers, Edouard  [cheers1]

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