Winter weather pounds California with rain for a week
Winter storms this week left San Benito County just a bit wetter
and muddier than usual.
After a week of storms, the Hollister area reported 1.89 inches
of rainfall at press time, bringing the season total to 6.92
inches. The total is still far off the average county rainfall of
13.37 inches a year.which is reported from October through
September.
Winter weather pounds California with rain for a week
Winter storms this week left San Benito County just a bit wetter and muddier than usual.
After a week of storms, the Hollister area reported 1.89 inches of rainfall at press time, bringing the season total to 6.92 inches. The total is still far off the average county rainfall of 13.37 inches a year.which is reported from October through September.
The storm stretched from the Mexican border up to Oregon and Washington and lasted through Tuesday afternoon, said Stan Wasowski, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in San Diego. He said rain clouds extended several hundred miles off the Pacific coast.
“This one here is hitting the entire state,” Wasowski said.
Heavy snow forced the closure of a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in both directions in the mountains north of Los Angeles. The roadway is the region’s main north-south artery.
In San Benito County, the rain collected in the San Benito River basin and offered up a rainbow across the valley during a short lull in the storm Tuesday afternoon. A forecast from weather.com predicted two days of partly cloudy weather before showers again return to San Benito County tomorrow.
