The Calm Before The Storm

After an extended dry period, rainfall for the 2022-23 rainy season in Sacramento is only 83% of normal for the date. But no fear. We are about to enter a roller coaster week of storms, starting late on Monday evening, the 26th of December. A week after that, by Tuesday, January 4th, we will be well above normal rainfall for the date. 

This rainy season appears to be more-or-less normal so far, which is something we haven't seen much of for the last decade. Water deficits are so great in California and the American West, however, that normal rainfall might not be good enough to prevent crippling water restrictions come next summer. Still, normal will have to do.  That's all we have.