We’re now in a position to confirm what you might have suspected after a weekend of sitting inside or walking the dog and getting soaked (preferred activities at KQED After-Hours Blog HQ in northern Berkeley): We just got a lot of rain.
Except for the atmospheric-river-fueled downpours north of the Golden Gate on Thursday, the series of storms that rolled through over the last several days were far from epic or overpowering. They just kept on coming.
So, the rain highlights, as summarized in the map up there:
- Rainy, rainy Venado, the semi-legendary and no doubt very mossy spot in the northern Sonoma County hills west of Healdsburg, got 11.64 inches of rain from early Thursday morning through Monday morning. Venado — which we’ll say unofficially appears to be one of the 10 wettest locations in California — has gotten 75 inches of rain since Oct. 1, 2015 and 21.76 inches so far in March.
- The Middle Peak weather station on Mount Tamalpais picked up 8.9 inches. The Marin Municipal Water District reservoirs, largely dependent on Mount Tam rainfall, are 100 percent full.
- In the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ben Lomond got 7.81 inches of rain and Mount Umunhum got 6.97 — notable in that the Thursday storm barely wet the bottom of the rain gauges at those two sites.
So much for rain highlights. If we’re to believe the current forecasts, we’re in for sunny, warm weather this week. Next chance of rain: Sometime this weekend or the beginning of next week,