Silver Lake Stormwatch: January 23

Two day’s after the first rain of 2012 comes the second storm of the year. Expected by meteorologists to pack a bigger wallop across the region than Saturday’s, it did not — at least not in our backyard according to our precipitometer, which registered 1 7/8ths of an inch (1.875″) as of 5 p.m. under clearing skies. Season-to-date total: 17.531″.