A car is submerged in floodwater after heavy rain moved through the area on January 09, 2023 in Windsor, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
How wet has it been recently in Northern California?
New rainfall totals show that no person alive has ever experienced a three-week period in the Bay Area as wet as these past 21 days.. The last time it happened, Abraham Lincoln was president.
From Dec. 26 to Jan. 15, a total of 17 inches of rain fell in downtown San Francisco. That’s the second-wettest three-week period at any time in San Francisco’s recorded history, since daily records began