A Bit of Rain
Mar. 4th, 2022 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerWe've gotten a bit of rain over the past 36 hours. That's both big news and not big news. It's big because we've had an awfully dry winter rain season, worsening the multi-year drought we're already in. As this San Francisco Chronicle article (4 Mar 2022) describes, the SF area got almost no rain in January and February this year. It broke dryness records dating back 170 years— as far back as scientific records have even been kept.
But the rain of the past 2 days is also not-big news because, well, the amount rainfall has been not-big. It started Wednesday night when I heard the gentle patter of rain falling on the roof. It lasted a few minutes at a time, on and off. By Thursday morning only enough had fallen to make the ground look damp. It rained a bit more heavily during the day and into the evening on Thursday, but still very lightly. As of this morning the rainfall accumulation from this storm has been only 0.2 inches in my town and about 0.5 inches in San Francisco. We need way, way more than that to catch up to average for the winter rain season. But this may well be the last rain of the season. 😰
But the rain of the past 2 days is also not-big news because, well, the amount rainfall has been not-big. It started Wednesday night when I heard the gentle patter of rain falling on the roof. It lasted a few minutes at a time, on and off. By Thursday morning only enough had fallen to make the ground look damp. It rained a bit more heavily during the day and into the evening on Thursday, but still very lightly. As of this morning the rainfall accumulation from this storm has been only 0.2 inches in my town and about 0.5 inches in San Francisco. We need way, way more than that to catch up to average for the winter rain season. But this may well be the last rain of the season. 😰
