Rain: A Little More... (April 15-16, 2018)

Rain overnight on April 15 and in the morning of April 16 added a little more to our total (0.55 inches) for the 2017-2018 rain year, which now stands at 23.95 inches. We are still well behind normal, but late rain is always a help. I wonder if this will be the last of the season?

Rain: Storms Bring More than Three Inches

Storms yesterday and last night brought us 3.15 inches of very welcome new rain. That brings our total for the 2017-2018 rain year to 21.45 inches at my location in northeast Santa Rosa. Average rainfall on by April 7 in Santa Rosa is 32.67 inches. So we are more than 10 inches below normal but yesterday's storm was a significant help. More please.

[Thank you. Heavy rain on April 11 added another 1.95 inches, bringing our total to 23.4 inches. Better, but still well below normal.]

Rain: A week of Rain—March 19-22, 2018

Rain the past few days, at times hard, has added 1.65 inches of new precipitation to our total at my northeast Santa Rosa location. That brings the total here for the 2017–2018 rain year to 18.05 inches. That's a good bump, but normal for March 22 in Santa Rosa is almost 31 inches, so, we remain well below normal. It's easy to get tired of rain, but we need much more.

[Subsequent showers added another 0.25 inches to bring the total to 18.30 inches as of March 25.]

Rain: More Rain (March 11-12, 2018)

A good storm yesterday and today left us with 1.15 inches of new rain, bringing our total so far in the 2017-2018 rain year to 14.65 inches. Normal for March 13 in Santa Rosa is going on 30 inches, however, which means we are way behind where we should be. Rain is forecast for tomorrow again. The more, the better.

[Update: More rain on March 14-15 added 1.65 inches to our total, which now stands at 16.30 inches. Better, but we need much more.]

[Update: Rain again since last reporting has brought the total as of today, March 18, to 16.40 inches.]

Rain: Finally, More Rain (February-early March 2018)

After a very, very dry February, we've finally had a little real rain again (on the night of February 25-26 mostly), adding 0.30 inches. More rain is in the forecast for the coming few days. The more the better. So far, our total stands at only 10.95 inches, which is well below normal for the end of February. We'll see how much new rain we get in the coming week.

[Update: On the night of March 1, very heavy rain added 1.35 inches to our total. We now stand at 12.30 inches for the year as of March 1 noon, but more rain is forecast for tonight.]

[Update: As of noon on March 3, we've had an additional 0.90 inches, bringing the total to 13.20 inches for the year so far.]

[Update: Another 0.30 inches brought the total as of March 8 to 13.50 inches. It's supposed to rain for much of the coming week.]

Rain: Almost an Inch--Then More

Rain off and on on January 4 and 5 added 0.70 inches of new rain at my location in northeast Santa Rosa. That brings our total for the 2017-2018 rain year to 7.00 inches. We are still well below normal so far, but every little bit helps.

[On January 7-8 we had more rain--an additional 2.95 inches. That brings our total for the year so far to 9.95 inches. Normal for this time of year is about 16 inches, so we are well behind average rainfall, but more rain is in the forecast for next week.]

[More rain about a week later added 0.70 inches to the total. As of January 20, we now stand at 10.65 inches for the year.]

[Drizzle on and off since last reporting added an additional 0.70 inches. As of January 24, the total for the year was 11.35 inches.]

Rain: Dry December

It's been a dry December. Last night, a misty drizzle added 0.15 inches to our total for the 2017-2018 rain year, but, at 6.3 inches so fare, we are well behind normal. Normal for December 20 in Santa Rosa is a little over 10.5 inches. The last substantial rain we had was November 26.

Rain: New Rain on November 26, 2017

It's been raining on and off all day today, November 26, 2017. So far there's 0.85 inches in the rain gauge. That brings our total so far for the current rain year to 5.75 inches. Normal for this date is about 5.82 inches, so we're somewhat behind normal, but it's still raining....

[The rain that continued eventually added another 0.40 inches to the total, which is now at 6.15 inches as a result.]

Rain: 2.55 inches of New Precipitation

It's rained on and off the past few days, at times heavily. We've had 2.55 inches of new rain since I last reported. That brings the total for the current (2017-2018) rain year to 4.90 inches.

Rain: More Rain (November 10, 2017)

More rain on the night of November 9 and into the following day has added 0.30 inches of new precipitation, bringing our total so far for the 2017-2018 rain year to 2.35 inches.

Rain: New Rain November 8, 2017

We had 1.15 inches of new rain last night, the night of November 8, 2017, which also marks a month from the wildfires here, not to mention a year with the criminal, national embarrassment. That brings our total so far for the 2017-2018 rain year to 2.05 inches.

Rain: First Real Rain of the 2017-2018 Rain Year

Overnight last night (November 4, 2017), we had a good rain, the first real rain since the start of the 2017-2018 rain year (which began on October 1, 2017 and will end on September 30, 2018) and the first appreciable rain since the fires. We had a trace of rain about a week after the fires started on the early morning of October 9, but not enough to make a difference, and things were in chaos. I didn't record the amount. It was very little--unfortunately. Rain then would have helped tremendously.

I have had no time at all to write about the fires or to write about the other things I usually write about in these pages, but I hope to get back into stride again soon. For the time being, I simply report that our rainfall so far this year stands at 0.9 inches.