So in terms of springtime San Francisco storms, this was one for the ages. Note that April is not usually a particularly wet month in San Francisco and most years March sees twice as much precipitation.īut this single April storm also delivered more rain than the city got in 114 of the 167 recorded March rainfall totals between 18, and more rain than the city has received in any May on record except for three. That’s not only more rain than falls on the city during the entirety of an average April, it’s actually more April rain than San Francisco has seen in all but a handful of occasions going back to 1849.Īccording to Golden Gate Weather Services in 167 years there have only been 18 Aprils in San Francisco that provided more rain than last week’s single storm: The National Weather Service field office in Monterey tells Curbed SF that, in all, 3.43 inches of rain fell on San Francisco from the storm that began Thursday afternoon.
In fact, this single storm alone delivered 15 percent of the city’s yearly average rainfall and broke some local weather records stretching all the way back to the Gold Rush era. As promised, the storm that came along with the atmospheric river that blindsided Northern California last week brought record rainfall as well as some troublesome flooding to San Francisco.
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