| ▲ | cdrnsf 7 hours ago |
| I've lived in California my whole life (and the same town for most of that). This was the most rain I can remember in decades and the most "destruction" I've seen caused by it. Between the ground being saturated and wind before/after/during the storms there were plenty of downed trees. We were also down to running sprinklers once a week (lawns are silly), but have had them off entirely for a bit now. |
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| ▲ | jmspring 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Spent 7+ years north of Truckee. There have been wetter/more snow years. |
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| ▲ | JohnMakin 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | California is big, and the LA basin can be extremely dry. For me this is the most I’ve seen since the one bad el nino season in the 90’s, but that one didn’t last nearly as long. It seems normal the last few years to get winter storm conditions that last months. 2025 was the coolest summer I’ve ever experienced living where I do near the coast with an onshore breeze that is now frigid and very wet at times. I usually get fog now in times of the year it rarely happened - almost like san francisco’s notorious summers. Tracking local weather patterns used to be part of my last career so this stuff I notice pretty well. |
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| ▲ | dilyevsky 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| not even close to 2023 or 2017 seasons here in norcal, not by a mile... |
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| ▲ | wbl 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I am so sad I missed 2023. But now I have the skills to really enjoy the next dump. |
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| ▲ | jeffbee 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The statewide rain totals for the 2025-2026 water year so far rank 6th out of the years of the 21st century, so aren't that remarkable in context. Do you live in a place that got slapped with a peculiarly high rainfall? |
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| ▲ | aetherson 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | California is big! That's also why there have technically been small parts of California which have been in drought for the last few years while most of the state is in good shape. This year, Southern California is having a wet year while most of Northern California is having a relatively dry one. | | |
| ▲ | cdrnsf 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | We're north of Los Angeles and the area has never really handled rain well. This is also entirely anecdotal having lived here for ~35 years. Some of the towns in our county have developments built on floodplanes. In our neighborhood, only some streets have storm drains so many of them flood. On one of the main roads numerous trees fell over damaging walls and homes. That last set of storms that really stands out were the El Niño events in the early oughts. |
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| ▲ | bps4484 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I wonder if overall rainfall doesn't tell the whole story. From my experience in SF (and admittedly CA is big and people will have very different experiences) there has been an enormous amount of rainfall early in the season and then another enormous amount over the holidays, but the rest has been dry. The total may not be that much but the acute heavy storms have been pretty intense. | |
| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Weren't there massive floods, in the Bay Area, last year? | | |
| ▲ | alephnerd 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The Bay Area is the size of Massachusetts. Depends on where in the Bay. | | |
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| ▲ | dcrazy 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Perhaps GP is thinking of last winter? | | |
| ▲ | lisper 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Heavy rain is usually very localized. I live in Norcal and I've seen many situations where we were getting hammered with multiple inches an hour while a few dozen miles away it wasn't raining at all, and vice versa. So even in a wet year whether your neighborhood gets slammed is a crap shoot. |
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| ▲ | zobzu 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| curious where in CA. in the past 15y ive def. seen more rain lol. |
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| ▲ | nomel 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think this has to be seen as "over some span of time", because a drought is an "over some span of time" thing. |
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