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The statewide rain totals for the 2025-2026 water year so far rank 6th out of the years of the 21st century, so aren't that remarkable in context. Do you live i
by jeffbee 9mo ago
The statewide rain totals for the 2025-2026 water year so far rank 6th out of the years of the 21st century, so aren't that remarkable in context. Do you live in a place that got slapped with a peculiarly high rainfall?
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoWeren't there massive floods, in the Bay Area, last year?
- alephnerd 9mo agoThe Bay Area is the size of Massachusetts. Depends on where in the Bay.
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoI guess I'm wrong. It was south of the Bay area. I live in NY, but I remember hearing from friends in CA that it got very bad. I think this story is only the latest one: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/more-rain-expected-drenched-california-before-drier-weekend-2025-12-26/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/more-rain-expec...
- alephnerd 9mo agoSame with SoCal - it's the size of NY State. CA's big and somewhat evenly populated (at least compared to similar states out east) so there's inevitably some form of environmental issue somewhere. Not to minimize these incidents ofc.
- dragonwriter 9mo agoThat article is about flooding that is about as far from the Bay Area as Suffolk, VA is from New York City. It's in California but California is...large. Especially along the North-South axis.
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoWell, it’s also not what I was thinking about. There were some huge floods. It may have been more than a year ago. When you get to my age, time does weird things. Nevermind. It’s not something that’s worth any agita. It’s obvious that it’s not something that left many scars.
- dcrazy 9mo agoPerhaps GP is thinking of last winter?
- lisper 9mo agoHeavy rain is usually very localized. I live in Norcal and I've seen many situations where we were getting hammered with multiple inches an hour while a few dozen miles away it wasn't raining at all, and vice versa. So even in a wet year whether your neighborhood gets slammed is a crap shoot.
- bobsmooth 9mo agoDid you end up taking a color blindness test?
- aetherson 9mo agoCalifornia is big! That's also why there have technically been small parts of California which have been in drought for the last few years while most of the state is in good shape. This year, Southern California is having a wet year while most of Northern California is having a relatively dry one.
- cdrnsf 9mo agoWe're north of Los Angeles and the area has never really handled rain well. This is also entirely anecdotal having lived here for ~35 years. Some of the towns in our county have developments built on floodplanes. In our neighborhood, only some streets have storm drains so many of them flood. On one of the main roads numerous trees fell over damaging walls and homes. That last set of storms that really stands out were the El Niño events in the early oughts.
- bps4484 9mo agoI wonder if overall rainfall doesn't tell the whole story. From my experience in SF (and admittedly CA is big and people will have very different experiences) there has been an enormous amount of rainfall early in the season and then another enormous amount over the holidays, but the rest has been dry. The total may not be that much but the acute heavy storms have been pretty intense.