Dear WeatherCat drought watchers,
The forecast is for no more rain through the end of the year, so I can accomplish this posting a bit early. December was the first wet month this season. Although nothing extreme, we received 120% of the benchmarks I have been using for these graphs:
Alas that only made a modest dent in the precipitation shortfall. We are now only up to 54% of rainfall we would expect to get by the end of December.
Taking a dose of my own medicine, I have been using this data as my basis for rainfall:
https://www.idcide.com/weather/ca/orinda.htmThe data is actually coming from Berkeley somewhere, at least 5 miles away from our house. I just noticed that the average rainfall total for November seems unreasonably high at 3.62". The 10 year average of my station data is 3.10" which seems closer to the ballpark. I have been concerned about this data almost since I've found it, but I've never found anything better.
Oh well, Edouard