In terms of total precipitation so far this rainfall year, counties on the Northern California coast received some of the highest amounts in the state, according to summary data from the National Centers for Environmental Information. That period included the Great Flood of 1862 and registered a staggering 49.27 inches.
San Francisco’s wettest rainfall year was from 1861-62. “To get into the top 10, you need to get more than 35 inches,” the Golden Gate Weather Services meteorologist said. And while that amount of rain is impressive, the amount of rain so far this year is still far less than the wettest years, according to Null’s records, which date to 1849. That’s 283% of the normal rainfall for the year, or 4.84 inches.īy comparison, downtown San Francisco has seen 31.42 inches of rain, or 137% of normal (about 23 inches) for an entire year. In Bishop (Inyo County) in the eastern Sierra, more than 13 inches of rain was recorded from Jthrough March 22. That’s up from around 60% of the stations at the beginning of March, according to NOAA data provided by meteorologist Jan Null. Los Angeles has received over 180%.īy Wednesday 41 of this subset of 52 observing stations across California, almost 80%, have well surpassed their average rainfall totals for an entire year, which runs from July 1 to June 30. Stockton and Merced, for example, have received 160% of a normal year’s rainfall. Those regions have received more than 1.5 times a typical year’s worth of rain, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s climate station data. California rain totals: Charts show dramatic effect of recent storms.
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