Sunny skies on Saturday morning gave Bay Area residents a break from the two days of heavy rains that pounded the region, breaking daily rainfall records in cities from Santa Rosa to San Jose.
“We still are going to have rain these next few days, but it’s nothing like what we went through,” said meteorologist Dylan Flynn, with the National Weather Service’s Monterey office.
Downtown Santa Rosa broke a century-plus record for having the most amount of rain within a 72-hour period — 12,7 inches. The previous record was 9.72 inches.
“We broke it by a healthy margin,” Flynn said. “We’ve never seen that much of rain over three days since we started recording.”
Downtown San Francisco registered 2.97 inches of rain Friday, a total that broke the single-day record of 1.12 inches set more than 150 years ago.
In the South Bay, San Jose recorded 0.72 inches of rain, breaking a daily record set in 1964 by 0.10 inches.
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