Tag: Bay Area rain

The Bay Area received rain over four days during the past week, although it was distributed unevenly — with the North Bay having more on some days and the South Bay getting wetter later in the week.

With at least 10 days of sunny weather expected in the forecast through mid-October, dry conditions are back. And the light rain of the past week wasn’t enough to end fire season, experts say. But it was enough to clear out dust, smoke and other pollutants from the air and significantly decrease fire risk for a while.

As is often the case, the highest elevations in the Greater Bay Area received the most rain. In short, the fall-winter rainy season got off to a decent start, although we won’t know until March or April whether this winter refills reservoirs again like the past three years or mostly fails to deliver like the most recent dry spell from 2020 to 2022.

Here are the seven-day rainfall totals (from 3 pm Friday Sept. 26 to 3 pm Friday Oct. 3) according to the National Weather Service, in inches:

– Mount Tamalpais: 2.79
– Mount St. Helena: 1.57
– Mount Umunhum: 1.18
– Mount Hamilton: 1.06
– Bonny Doon: 90
– Mission Peak (Fremont): .79
– Tilden Park (Berkeley Hills): .77
– Mount Diablo: .72
– Henry W. Coe State Park: .71
– UC Berkeley: .67
– Sunol: .65
– Ben Lomond: .63
– Union City: .62
– Livermore: .60
– Santa Rosa: .55
– Boulder Creek: .55
– Bodega Bay: .54
– Byron: .48
– Sunnyvale: .47
– San Jose / SJC: .45
– La Honda: .45
– Mountain View: .43
– Point Reyes Station: .43
– Dublin: .42
– Oakland: .41
– Soquel: .36
– Palo Alto: .35
– Los Altos: .34
– Richmond: .29
– Saratoga: .27
– Watsonville: .25
– SFO: .16
– Downtown San Francisco: .12
– Morgan Hill: .08
– Petaluma: .08
– Concord: .06
– Novato: .05
– Monterey: .05
– Pinnacles National Park: .05
– Marina: .04