Rain pauses

rainfall 25 Jan 08The rain stopped by this morning, but the National Weather Service was reporting these rainfall amounts over the last 24 hours ending 7:00 AM:
Petaluma — 4.89″
San Rafael — 4.32 ”
Napa — 2.15″
San Francisco* — 3.18″
SFO — 2.48″
Orinda — 2.03″
Downtown Oakland — 1.86″
Moffett Field — 1.36″
San Jose Airport — 0.99″
Ben Lomond — 6.07″

Highway 1 at Devil’s Slide was reopened during the night after being closed by a mudslide on Friday afternoon.

As you can see, some locations got a lot of rain, and some got a stupid amount. This 2005 story from the Chronicle talks about why certain Bay Area locations get double rain.

* Where is San Francisco’s rain gauge? At the San Francisco Mint, as this page says.

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