Well, that was a good little soaker.
Stockton got 1.47 inches of rain in the past two days in a storm that bedeviled drivers but delighted farmers, the National Weather Service reported.
The tally comes from measurements at the NWS station at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport.
And chalk up a victory for forecasters: The final precipitation amount matched the weather service’s prediction of “up to 1.5 inches” almost exactly.
“The rain forecast did pretty good over the last 48 hours,” meteorologist Katrina Hand said from the NWS’ Sacramento office.
As for the storm, it’s moved on from Northern California.
“Everything has shifted to the east,” Hand said.
By and large, Stockton handled the early-season rains in stride.
“Other than the typical storm drains being blocked by leaves, no issues have been brought to my attention at this time,” Stockton city government spokesperson Tony Mannor told Stocktonia.
The storm also brought significant snow to the Sierra. The weather service reported 1 to 3 feet of snow could drop at elevations above 5,500 feet. But Bear Valley, northwest of Stockton, reported a whopping 21 inches of fresh powder. The Sierra Snow Lab, a research station of UC Berkeley, reported its first measurable snowfall of the season, recording 7.3 inches.
With no additional storms on the horizon, neither rain nor snow is predicted in Northern California in the coming week. But there is some patchy fog in the forecast for Stockton. Forecasters expect fog across much of the Central Valley on Thursday morning, with visibility at less than a quarter of a mile.