There has been rain here on the coast on and off for about a week now with Santa Cruz getting over 5 inches of rain so far and most other places less than 2 inches of rain. Where I live on the coast we got wind and rain at about a constant 20 to 30 miles per hour with Gusts of 40 to 50 one of which blew the ladder over that I was cleaning my gutters and downspouts with that had clogged from all the rain and winds moving pine needles and leaves into the downspouts the last week. Before I unclogged the first downspout it had been clogged with roof moss on our cement tile roof. We get this kind of moss growing on roof tiles because we are within 1 mile of the ocean and fog occurs here a lot at times during the year coming off the Pacific Ocean, especially sometimes in winter. So, this moss mostly grows from about October to April during the year. So, in a wind it blows off the roof tiles and gets into the gutters and then clogs the down spouts here.
The highest rainfall was about 10 inches of rain near Big Sur up in the mountains there and also the highest winds were about 70 mph in the same area. There also was a lot of snow when the temperatures got low enough there as well in the last storm before this one now.
I'm watching the Weather radar and it's fairly clear south of Soledad on Highway 101 but the rain and snow pattern continues hitting Merced to Sacramento and over the Sierras into Nevada and points to the northeast as far as Twin Falls, Idaho Falls and Pocatello in Idaho where it tends to start moving more eastward from there with remnants as far as Fargo, North Dakota.
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