drought monitor report also shows all of the Bay Area in severe drought despite the atmospheric rivers early in the rainy season. 24-hour rainfall totals through 9:30 am: Mount Tamalpais 4.35 inches Ben Lomond 2.95 inches Mount Umunhum 2.83 inches Mill Valley 2.68 inches Mount Madonna 2. While more rain is expected in the last week of March, said Ryan Walbrun, another meteorologist with the weather service, the rainfall is far from “drought-busting.” Much of California, including the Bay Area, saw very little rain in January and February - both crucial months in the rainy season. Still, we'll take what we can get! #cawx /Bf6rUw7krP- NWS Bay Area March 19, 2022 Bad news is it won't be enough to make a real dent in our rainfall deficit. Good news is we'll finally get a little rain tomorrow. 24 inches, according to 24-hour precipitation data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.ĭrought remains across the area due to the limited precipitation we've seen so far this year. 08 inches of rain, Mount Hamilton recorded. “We were only thinking it would only be around a tenth of an inch or higher in some locations, but it ended up being more along the lines of a couple hundredths of an inch here and there,” King said. 01 inches fell at Napa County Airport as of 8 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
Many North Bay areas saw no rain Saturday. Meteorologists weren’t expecting an atmospheric river to drench the region, but they were anticipating higher rainfall totals in the North Bay. “With that remaining so far out rather than coming closer to the shoreline - like a lot of the models were saying - that really kind of helped contribute to keeping all the moisture out over the ocean,” King said.