72-Hour Rainfall Exceeds All Of October 2015 In Many Areas

BAY AREA, CA – Since Thursday evening most places in the San Francisco Bay Area got more rain than in all of October of last year, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

Unofficial totals as of about 7 p.m. Sunday showed downtown San Francisco with rainfall of 1.08 inches, meteorologist Anna Schneider said.

Oakland reported 1.76 inches and Concord reported 1.16 inches. Santa Rosa reported 1.81 inches while in San Jose rainfall totaled 0.55 inches

A gauge in the Santa Cruz Mountains off Ormsby Cutoff Road recorded 10.72 inches as of 5:05 p.m. Sunday.

Schneider said that most areas would receive less than a half an inch rain today.

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