New Year's Eve storm 2nd wettest day on record for San Francisco - KGO-TV

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco was THIS adjacent to breaking a grounds for the single-wettest time successful the city's history.

The Bay Area was deed with a Level 2 tempest according to ABC7's exclusive Storm Impact Scale connected New Year's Eve connected Saturday.

ABC7 News meteorologist Drew Tuma tweeted December was the wettest period each twelvemonth astatine 4.76". He says the metropolis saw 31 days worthy of December rainfall autumn successful lone 13 hours---from midnight to 1 p.m. Saturday.

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As of 3p.m. connected Satruday, a rainfall gauge recorded downtown San Francisco astatine 5.33 inches. It was inching adjacent to beating a grounds of 5.54" successful a azygous time backmost connected Nov. 5, 1994, according to the National Weather Service. That's 28 years ago.

Tuma says the NWS records spell backmost to 1849.

So was Dec. 31, 2022, the past time of the year, the single-wettest calendar time connected grounds successful San Francisco?

No, but it was close.

Rain measured astatine 5.46" successful downtown San Francisco, according to the National Weather Service.

But it did go the second rainiest azygous time surpassing a grounds from Jan. 29, 1881---which measured astatine 4.67"---142 years ago.

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