Wed 20 Feb 2013
Silver Lake Stormwatch: February 19
Posted by Will under weather
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Can’t say the meteorologists didn’t warn me. They certainly didn’t up-play the potential rainfall yesterday’s very cold storm might drop. Still, given how it was a-brewing aaaaaall day long and how our backyard for whatever reason tends to be the beneficiary of rainfall totals greater than the average, I harbored hopes there might be a drenching, up until I dashed them in the late afternoon when nary more than the occasional sprinkle had sprunkled. Or is it sprankled?
By this morning the distant San Gabriel ridges visible from our Silver Lake bedroom were dusted nicely with the white stuff, but as for the wet stuff closer to home, our precipitometer tabulated less than one-third of an inch — officially: 0.30″ — not near close to the minimal amount needed to move us upward into the next inch mark.
February 19: 0.30″Season Total: 16.87″
How is it you’ve had more than 10″ more rain than we have? We used to get closer to 3x the amount downtown gets but the past 2 years – next to nothing – no matter where I put the rain gauges in the yard (yep we’ve got 2). I’m blaming the 4 acre deforestation in Semi Tropic Spiritualists’ Tract. Why not.
Hi Diane. I check in with your blog after a rain and I’m as amazed at the different amounts between us — and at such a relatively close distance. I can’t explain it.