Record rains in California

A large and unusually intense low pressure system moved inland over California over the weekend, bringing large areas of the state rains unheard of in June. According to our weather historian, Christopher C. Burt, rainfall at Mining Ridge on the Big Sur coast totaled 8.31" Sunday, which, if verified, would be California's heaviest 1-day June rainstorm on record. According to the document "Historic Rainstorms in California" Dept. of Water Resources, Aug. 1997, the previous maximum June daily rainfall was 5.83" at Forni Ridge on June 18, 1982. San Francisco had its 2nd greatest June 1-day rainfall, going back to 1850, and both the San Francisco and Oakland airport have now had their rainiest Junes on record. Rainfall at Santa Barbara Airport yesterday totaled 1.24 inches, the wettest June day there on record (previous record: 0.51" on June 5, 2009.) The 1.38"of rain so far this June has made it the wettest June in recorded history at Santa Barbara Airport, going back to 1941.

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It's just been churning away offshore, doing no good at all.

I just hope it gets to the Arizona-NM border and puts that damn fire out. It's been smoky as hell here for days.

And if it puts out our fires while it's at it, better yet.

Rain in june -- there's a thing we don't see every day.

otherwise you wouldn't know anything is going on.

A bit down and to the right, please.

The plants, on the other hand, are very happy, and I have been able to get more done than I would normally have done if it were 80 degrees out.

On a less myopic level, I hope we don't get flooding from this. :(