AND....its still Raining in San Francisco

[yuiyoshida]

This started early this morning and hasn't stopped...yay

[yeoman6987]

1. That is great news

I hope it rains all week for you guys. You need it big time.

[yuiyoshida]

2. I hope that large sucking sound

heard all the way to Maryland is the dry land taking in the moisture! This also means, that some where in the state, its snowing...we need that too, cause it all washes down to the reservoirs eventually!

[yeoman6987]

3. Me too. Me too!

[NobodyHere]

4. I hope there are no wedding days

That would be ironic

[yuiyoshida]

5. Well if so, they can do a rendition of ...

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Snowing like crazy here in the San Bernardino Mountains.

They're forecasting up to 2 feet here by Thursday a.m. and 4 feet above 7,000 by Friday.

Yippee.

[yuiyoshida]

7. gonna fill up those

Reservoirs, somewhat, but probably not fully, still, who can complain?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

8. Light rain in the North Bay

It's a good day for weed and movies.

[yuiyoshida]

9. Omg...can I come over?

maybe I can find a ride... on the other hand, maybe I will sit in my pajamas and drink Hot Cocoa with a big fat candy cane and marshmallows in it!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

12. That works too!

[arcane1]

10. I hope it rains so much this year that I can't stop complaining about it. And then some!

[yuiyoshida]

11. I won't complain about the Rain

its so badly needed, here ...well ya know?

[arcane1]

13. Now that you mention it, it's the wind that annoys me most.

And I'll take that too!!

Of course the rain stopped now that I posted that

[yuiyoshida]

14. Winds are great...

It beats freezing in your house, sitting next to a space heater, because the fog has come in, and the temperature is cold, and the humidity is high...that wet and cold feeling? That's what its like in the fog at night. Love those winds, cause they blow fog away,...except when we really need it in the Summer time, when its 115 degrees over in Concord.

56 degrees in the city is far, far better than 115 in Concord!

[arcane1]

17. That is a very sound series of arguments indeed. And it's correct 99% of the time :)

My big peeve when it's all boiled down: walking home from work with rain blowing at me horizontally at 20mph, while splashing through flooded intersections. That's what I can't wait to complain about this year!

[yuiyoshida]

18. Not sure whats worse...that or

a MUNI BUS roaring though a street puddle, where all the water lands on you...hate that!

[arcane1]

44. I'm going to love hating that too, at least for this year n/t

[haikugal]

23. Hell I used to head into the city every chance...from Concord!

Glad it's raining and hope you all get lots of rain and NO slides!

[pinboy3niner]

15. I heard the surf is 15'. You know what that means...

CaliforniaPeggy is probably out there on her board, hanging 10. Cowabunga, dude!

[yuiyoshida]

16. Ya know what I miss most about Southern California?

The great beaches and the warmer weather. I JUST LOVE the beach, and ours suck up here...The best beach I ever went to was VENTURA...I JUST loved going there!!


And at night...the sunsets from Huntington Beach Pier!

[hunter]

21. Ah, the beaches are lovely here in Northern California.

But I've never ever felt like taking off my clothes and jumping into the surf.

The water is too cold.

In Southern California an Mexico I was always in the water.

[yuiyoshida]

22. Well you know there is another reason for not

really wanting to go into the water....because of these


we have ...these...

[hunter]

25. Sea lions are playful and curious in the water, although they've startled me a few times.

On land they don't feel so secure about people and will sometimes bite.

Sharks, no I don't want to meet them.

I hooked a big bonito once, fishing with my dad as a kid. I had it just about out of the water and onto the boat when a shark grabbed it, leaving me just the head.

CHOMP! A clean cut.

I remember feeling the shark could have grabbed my arm as well, had he wanted it.

[madokie]

19. Good news

you all need the rain best I can tell

our last rain dropped 9 inches on us here in northeast oklahoma

[yuiyoshida]

20. Now see?

That's a rain storm!!

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Flash flood warning issued for San DIego North County

to scan or not to scan, that is the question...

[yuiyoshida]

28. Yeah in some areas

the rain won't even sink into the ground. When I lived in Santa Bararba we had major flooding, and drains were clogged, and the over flows ...over flowed. One man was killed, swept from his house, because of the massive amount of rain, that would not sink in the ground. Maybe many areas were gravel filled..places under highway over passes, had large amounts of water under them. Than the mud slides...ack! It was nuts!

[nadinbrzezinski]

30. Scanning

this keeps this way for another five minutes and we will have a flash flood warning for San Diego Central coastal.

Water dispatched already to a possible water rescue in the north.

[yuiyoshida]

32. Hey Nadin

You stay safe and warm, okay? Lets both grab us a warm blanket and a cup of Hot Cocoa! Okay?

[SDJay]

33. Yep. My phone just went off.

We live basically on top of a hill in Encinitas so we'll be fine.

I haven't seen it rain like that here in a LONG time. I hope this doesn't wind up being too much of a good thing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

34. Stay there, SD Fire is responding with swift water

oh wait, they just cancelled them.

[yuiyoshida]

35. I think we need as much as we can but

I heard a weather forecaster said, even with this Super El Nino, California will not be able to make up for the water it lost, not for years. Still if the water sinks into the ground, that's great but if it flows outward across the ground, not so good.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. There's some satisfaction, in the San Francisco rain

no matter what comes down, the Mission always looks the same.

[onecaliberal]

27. Here too, raining for two days, supposed to rain tomorrow too!

[yuiyoshida]

29. We really need it

This is the best time of year to get it!

[onecaliberal]

31. Yes, we really do!

[workinclasszero]

36. Yay!

[yuiyoshida]

37. Actually, I kinda like this one...

[workinclasszero]

40. Oh yeah thats a good one :)

[lovemydog]

38. What a breathtaking photo.

Beautiful.

I love San Francisco!

I love rain.

[yuiyoshida]

39. This one is my favorite today

[Luminous Animal]

41. Beautiful. The sun is shining now in the Presidio. Looking forward to my walk through Park Presidio

to the bus.

[yuiyoshida]

46. It really Poured hard this morning

Most I have heard in a while. Its great we got a good soaking.

[Omaha Steve]

42. K&R!

OS

[Quixote1818]

43. This is a good site to track the Sierra Nevada snowpack

You can zoom in and click one each station and then click on the dot. It will bring up another small screen and you can click on Water Year Chart. See second link.

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/webmap/index.html#elements=&networks=!&states=!&counties=!&hucs=&minElevation=&maxElevation=&elementSelectType=all&activeOnly=true&hucLabels=false&stationLabels=&overlays=&hucOverlays=&mode=data&openSections=dataElement,parameter,date,elements,location,networks&controlsOpen=true&popup=&base=esriNgwm&lat=39.98&lon=-98.96&zoom=4&dataElement=WTEQ&parameter=PCTMED&frequency=DAILY&duration=I&customDuration=&dayPart=E&year=2016&month=1&day=4&monthPart=E


Link # 2 (just one station in the Sierras) http://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/reportGenerator/view/customChartReport/daily/633:CA:SNTL%7cid=%22%22%7cname/CurrentWY,CurrentWYEnd/WTEQ::value,WTEQ::median_1981,PREC::value,PREC::average_1981?fitToScreen=false

[NBachers]

45. We got a little bit of sun this afternoon, and I spotted a great rainbow.

It means good tidings for all in the year ahead.

There's something about rain in San Francisco that makes it feel all Dashiell Hammett.

I'm cooking up some brown rice and garbanzo beans. Add in some onion, garlic, jalapeno, ginger, and tomato, and I'll have a nice spicy dinner. Maybe I'll put on some old '40's movie tonight and pour a wee dram of the good stuff.

[question everything]

47. I think that northern CA and Oregon got a lot of rain

what I wonder is whether any of that reached SoCal: LA, OC, SD counties.