Rain: A little more. Perhaps the last?

We had two days of rain at the beginning of the week – Monday and Tuesday. I found about 0.80 inches in the rain gauge after the sky cleared. That brings our total for the current rainy season to 25.45 inches at my location in northeast Santa Rosa. That's well below normal, which is about 35 inches annually, and the warm weather we had leading up to that rain apparently has reduced the snowpack in the Sierras to close to zero, which does not bode well for the water situation this summer. I'm hoping we have at least one more big storm before the rainy season ends, but we're already near the end of the season. We'll see....

[Edit: It wasn't the last. A new storm passed through the area on the 11th and 12h of April, dropping about 1.8 inches of new rain, which is very helpful. That brings our total so far to 27.25 inches, but it's still raining on and off today. There will be a little more before this ends.]

Miscellaneous: No Kings March, March 28 2026

According to news reports, about 8.3 million people turned out across the United States on Saturday, March 28, to join a "No Kings" march. More than 3,000 locations saw marchers out on the street. I attended the event in Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa protestors gathered at two locations in the city and marched toward each other to gather at Santa Rosa's downtown plaza. 

I haven't seen a final estimate, but I heard that as many an 15,000 people may have marched in Santa Rosa. If true, that would be about 10% of the city's population.