Oakland has accumulated more rain than average, but had fewer rainy days
California’s wet and wild winter has come to a close. It certainly seemed like a way rainier than normal year in the Bay Area, but by some metrics it’s actually been just shy of average.
That’s right. Rainfall totals were impressive, nearly double the annual average, but the number of rainy days is still slightly below average.Take Oakland for example. It’s just shy of its historical average of 68 days with measurable rainfall in a year, recording 62 rainy days in the rain year starting July 1, 2022, through April 20. There is no rain predicted for the near future, and just over two historically dry months before the rain year ends on June 30.
Now, with wildflowers coating the bright green hills, popping up in every highway median and sidewalk crack and with mostly sunshine and warm days on the horizon it’s possible that even in this drought-busting year we will still fall short of the average number of rainy days. The cumulative rainfall might have been significant, but “it wasn’t close to a record breaking year,” said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services in Half Moon Bay who has data going back to October 1840 for San Francisco, and the expertise to know what is unusual.
Even with fewer rainy days, total rainfall has reached 30 inches, well over the 18.7-inch annual average recorded at the observation station at the Oakland Airport from 1999-2020. And there were more of the rainiest days than normal. There were seven days this rain-year that had over an inch of rainfall, nearly triple the average number of days with over an inch of rain.
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