Fifty Percent Of Normal

So, the storm system finally passed through - only the second major storm system of the entire winter. Accumulated precipitation for the season is about half of normal. As long as we can keep the high pressure system over the central Pacific rather than over the eastern Pacific, we still have a chance for more, however:

DATA REPRESENT PRECIPITATION ENDING AT 500 PM PDT ON 03/18/2012


SINCE JUL 01- JUL 01- JUL 01- JUL 01-
MIDNITE MAR 18 MAR 18 MAR 18 JUN 30
CLIMATE STATION TOTAL 2012 PON 2011 PON NORMAL NORMAL
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...NORTHERN CALIFORNIA...

CRESCENT CITY 0.07 38.19 75 49.05 97 50.61 64.03
EUREKA 0.15 26.24 81 32.67 101 32.43 40.33
UKIAH 0.01 18.40 59 31.51 101 31.05 37.35
REDDING 0.06 16.73 59 24.96 88 28.21 34.62
SACRAMENTO EXEC AIRPORT 0.02 7.84 50 18.77 121 15.56 18.52
SANTA ROSA 0.01 17.68 57 31.82 103 30.96 36.28
SAN FRANCISCO 0.00 10.31 51 20.74 103 20.20 23.65
SFO INT`L AIRPORT T 7.90 44 16.92 95 17.77 20.65
OAKLAND AIRPORT 0.00 9.24 53 16.60 95 17.51 20.81
LIVERMORE 0.01 5.09 38 11.48 87 13.27 15.71
MOUNTAIN VIEW - MOFFETT 0.02 4.13 33 9.95 81 12.34 14.68
SAN JOSE 0.03 3.81 30 10.11 80 12.71 14.90