Dylan

We picked up over 1/10th of an inch in Santa Barbara today. Some of the Mountain areas in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties picked up over .5 inches.

The rain gauge has over 2.2 inches in Santa Barbara so far. For the past few hours the rain has been coming down lightly.

We picked up over .5" today in Santa Barbara. It was a very light rain for most of the day with a few periods of moderate rainfall.

Maybe we will get some normal winter weather for a change this week. I might even need to pull out some rain gear or a sweatshirt. i really hope we don't set a record or near record for drought this winter.

It was a nice day today with temperatures surpassing the 70 degree mark. I hope that we will see some rain soon as I hate having to irrigate the garden in what should be one of the wettest months of the year.

I picked up around 2" in Santa Barbara. Some areas where the mudslides occurred picked up in excess of .5" in about 5 minutes. That is a lot of rain in such a short period of time especially considering this is the first rain of more than a quarter of an inch this season.

The air quality is bad in Santa Barbara. I can't remember seeing ash fall in December before or being cold while this is occurring. Hopefully the winds will remain calm.

Morning low was 32 this morning with quite a bit of smoke from the Thomas Fire this afternoon. I really hope we get some rain soon. This is way to late in the season be getting massive fires.

Maybe we will have some seasonal temperatures for a change? It would be nice if we would get some rain, since this is our rainy season. Temperatures have been dipping into the upper 30's for the past couple of nights.

Wow, we had three consecutive days in a row at 100+ in late October is very odd setting records. Today was 103/54. Hopefully we will be getting some rain soon with close to normal temperatures.

We hit 91 here today with a morning low of 48.

94/49 It has been cool in the morning and hot during the day.

We picked up just under .1 last night. This brings us to over .35" for September which is rather unusual for Santa Barbara.

So far nothing in Santa Barbara but there have been many warnings further inland and north.

We have been having some interesting weather. With the heat wave we topped out at around 100 with lows as high as 72(this morning). This afternoon we picked up .25" of rain with thunder and wind. Hopefully we can pick up some more rain before this is over.

Lake Cachuma has done quite well with the last big storm. All of the County of Santa Barbara is above average for the entire rainy season and it is not even March.

The rainfall total from the 16th thru 18th here added up to 6.2". This adds up to around 23.1" for the season. The season average is somewhere around 18.5".

The Santa Barbara area did quite well. I picked up around 6.05" (I had to empty my rain gauge so it would not overflow). This storm drenched the Cachuma watershed and put significant runoff into Cachuma. As of 8 am on 2/17/2017 Cachuma was at 18.2% of capacity and today 2/18/2017 at 8 am it was at 32.5%. The 24 hour rise is 27689 acre feet, nearly double from the lakes low last Fall.

5+ inches and still raining. I had to empty the rain gauge mid day so that it would not fill up.

Low around 33 in morning to high around 76 this afternoon.

We still can really use more rain in Santa Barbara County. Our main reservoir, Cachuma is still under 15% capacity.

It was an interesting morning today. I got awakened to a tornado warning for Santa Barbara county on my phone this morning. Although I was not near the warning area there was a brief period with heavy pea size hail around 6:45 am. There was still some hail persisting, unmelted in one of my plants located in a shaded area, this afternoon around 4:30 pm. January rainfall total around 9" and Season total at 14". There is finally some runoff into the Gibraltar and Cachuma reservoirs in Santa Barbara county.

So far we have picked up just over 1.7" with the current storm. The previous storm produced 2.7" and out monthly total is now over 8". The soil seems to be finally getting saturated in the garden as even a light rain is causing some ponding.