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Weekend rainfall in Bay Area exceeds total for all of October 2015

By BY Bay City News • October 17, 2016 12:00 am
A man collects recycling along Duboce Street during the first significant rainfall of the season in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, October 14, 2016. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
A man collects recycling along Duboce Street during the first significant rainfall of the season in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, October 14, 2016. (Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)

Since Thursday evening most places in the San Francisco Bay Area got more rain than in all of October of last year, a National Weather Service meteorologist said.

Unofficial totals as of about 7 p.m. Sunday showed downtown San Francisco with rainfall of 1.08 inches, meteorologist Anna Schneider said.

Oakland reported 1.76 inches and Concord reported 1.16 inches.

Santa Rosa reported 1.81 inches while in San Jose rainfall totaled 0.55 inches

A gauge in the Santa Cruz Mountains off Ormsby Cutoff Road recorded 10.72 inches as of 5:05 p.m. Sunday.

Schneider said that most areas would receive less than a half an inch rain Sunday.

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