It's merely the 4th day of June, and already 2011is going down in the books as one of the wettest Junes on record in the Bay Area.
DISCUSSION...AS OF 5:00 AM PDT SATURDAY...
ANOMALOUS LOW PRESSURE CONTINUES TO SPIN OFF THE COAST AS BIZARRE EARLY JUNE WEATHER CONTINUES ACROSS THE DISTRICT. ALREADY HAVE BROKEN THE RAINFALL RECORD AT KSFO FOR TODAY...ONLY NEEDING 0.16 INCHES WHICH WE`VE ALREADY SURPASSED. RAIN IS OBVIOUSLY STILL FALLING SO FINAL DATA WONT BE CALCULATED AND COLLECTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT FOR THE CALENDAR DAY BUT POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL PRECIP RECORDS TO FALL TODAY.
Source: http://goo.gl/ey4KW
Also:
(as of 9am) JUNE 4TH DAILY RAINFALL RECORDS: LOCATION RAINFALL AMOUNT YEAR NEW RECORD ---------------------------------------------------------- KENTFIELD 1.00 1993 NAPA 0.53 1993 OAKLAND CITY 0.10 1993 (0.51 AS OF 6 AM) OAKLAND AIRPORT 0.04 1984 (0.57 AS OF 6 AM) RICHMOND 1.42 1993 SFO AIRPORT 0.16 1947 (0.43 AS OF 6 AM) SAN FRANCISCO CITY 0.49 1934 (0.50 AS OF 6 AM) SAN JOSE 0.18 1993 (0.25 AS OF 6 AM) MONTEREY COOP SITE 0.14 1993 SALINAS COOP SITE 0.18 1993 SANTA CRUZ 0.42 1993
An unusually strong cyclonic low-pressure rotation was visible in the 11:30am PDT satellite image shown below:
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