Joseph Gemignani, an avid amateur weatherman, checks the rain gauge in the backyard of his home in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, March 2, 2023. He’s been perplexed by the totals recorded at San Jose International Airport’s rain gauge. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Joseph Gemignani likes numbers so much that he once hoped to become a meteorologist and when that didn’t pan out, he turned to accounting. But the weather nerd in him is still alive and well, and he keeps a watchful eye on the region’s rain numbers — especially with the apocalyptic volume of water hitting the Bay Area and the