Entire Month's Rainfall Drops On South Bay In A Day, Along With Hail, Lightning And Thunder
SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- More rain fell in the Bay Area on Thursday than normally falls for the entire month of May as a spring storm moved through with lightning, thunder, hail, and downpours.
Sunnyvale and Rohnert Park were among the wettest getting over .6 an inch of rain today as of 6 p.m.
Rainfall totals as of 6 p.m. included:
Sunnyvale: .62"
Rohnert Park: .60"
Mountain View: .55"
San Jose: .45"
Petaluma: .32"
Palo Alto: .24"
Normal May rainfall for San Jose, by contrast, is 0.51 inches according to NOAA.
Over 50 lightning strikes were tracked around Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County.
Hail covered the ground in some areas, including this Livermore street corner.
The precipitation, while more than a normal May, doesn't do anything to make up for the 3 years of drier weather that preceded it in the now four-year California drought.