California storms: The past three weeks were the wettest in 161 years in the Bay Area

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

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