A student walks in the rain at San Jose State in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)
San Jose is overhauling its suspect rain measurement system — but the mystery around the data it’s been collecting hasn’t evaporated just yet.
Officials at the National Weather Service said Thursday that they replaced a rain gauge at San Jose Mineta International Airport — the source of the city’s official precipitation data — that previously had been reporting what were believed to be grossly inaccurate numbers. The swap came after intense public criticism of the meager totals in a
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