California Snow & Rainfall 2016/2017 (Los Angeles, San Diego: how much, shop, beach)

[Chimérique]

Large Cities: most to least rainfall to date

1. Sacramento 32.98 - NorCal

2. San Francisco 31.55 - NorCal
3. Oakland 27.85 - NorCal

4. Long Beach 19.58 - SoCal
5. Los Angeles 18.67- SoCal
6. San Jose 17.88 - NorCal

7. Fresno 16.74 - Central Cal

8. Riverside 13.19 - SoCal
9. San Diego 11.70 - SoCal

10. Bakersfield 7.43 - SoCal

[Chimérique]

Snowpack - Sierra Nevada Mountains - the Sierra's lie between two other mountain ranges, the Cascades and the Tehachapi's. That is, between Lassen Peak(Cascades) in the north, and Tehachapi Pass(Tehachapi's) in the south.

Northern Sierra - 170% of Normal - Lassen Peak south to North Lake Tahoe (Lassen Peak not counted as part of Sierra's)

Central Sierra - 188% of Normal - South Lake Tahoe, south to Yosemite

Southern Sierra - 173% of Normal - South of Yosemite to Tehachapi Pass(Tehachapi's not counted as part of the Sierra's)

*Often the National Weather Service counts Yosemite snowfall as Southern Sierra not Central Sierra, although if the Sierra's are divided in equal thirds, then Yosemite technically lies in the Central Sierra.

Northern Sierra - North Lake Tahoe

Central Sierra - South Lake Tahoe, Yosemite

Southern Sierra - Mammoth Lakes

[Ruth4Truth]

I'm interested to see how it will compare a year from now. And how long the snow lasts this year.

[evening sun]

Our area had 85 inches of rain ( Sierra Nevada Foothills)

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Large Cities: most to least rainfall to date

1. Sacramento 32.98 - NorCal

2. San Francisco 31.55 - NorCal
3. Oakland 27.85 - NorCal

4. Long Beach 19.58 - SoCal
5. Los Angeles 18.67- SoCal
6. San Jose 17.88 - NorCal

7. Fresno 16.74 - Central Cal

8. Riverside 13.19 - SoCal
9. San Diego 11.70 - SoCal

10. Bakersfield 7.43 - SoCal

It had been so dry that San Diego felt like it had an epic wet year but it really didn't. The normal rainfall here is 10.34 in.

[Zelva]

"LA Dept of Water & Power gears up for anticipated massive runoff water from this year's near record snowpack in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains." (The Inyo Register 4/15/2017).

(In the Owens Valley / Bishop CA area) "The efforts have been assisted by an emergency declaration from the mayor of the city of Los Angeles...."

And Caltrans - District 9 - recently reports that mountain pass highways have 3 to 15 feet of snowpack to be cleared before they can be opened. (Some 50 ft snow drifts as well.)

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by evening sun

Our area had 85 inches of rain ( Sierra Nevada Foothills)

Please post Sierra Foothills towns; it's hard to find that data. People don't realize how much rain the foothills get.

[Chimérique]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

It had been so dry that San Diego felt like it had an epic wet year but it really didn't. The normal rainfall here is 10.34 in.

I've noticed that places that normally get below 20 inches/per year tend to be sensitive to rain(which is 2/3 of California and 97% of the population). And that sensitivity increases for every inch below 20 and that sensitivity is "exponential" for places that average below 15 inches, 10 inches and so on.

Because we get most of our rain in a 4-6 month period and we are absent of rain for more than half the year plays into our sensitivity to rain.

[JGC97]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

I'm interested to see how it will compare a year from now. And how long the snow lasts this year.

According to news reports, people may still be skiing on the fourth of July. They'll need one of these.

[Mr5150]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Please post Sierra Foothills towns; it's hard to find that data. People don't realize how much rain the foothills get.

Sonora: average 33 inches. Way more than that this season. Hmm...the words "than, that and this" in a short sentence.

With that said more is a comin' stating Easter Sunday. "Groan".