City gets over an inch of rainfall in last week
A crossing guard stands watch with an umbrella Tuesday morning in North County.
Rainstorms that began a week ago have yielded a little over an inch of rainfall for Paso Robles, according daily precipitation reports from the Paso Robles Water Yard in the downtown at 1230 Paso Robles Street.
The 1.04-inches of fresh rain brings the season’s total to 6.03 inches. The rainfall season runs from July 2013 to June 2014. That is an inch shy of the total rainfall recorded, 7.03 for the 2012-2013 season. The Paso Robles Water Division has recorded an average annual rainfall total of 14.33 inches and a median of 11.49 inches since 1942.
Rainfall report
- March 26 – trace
- March 27 – .03-inches
- March 30 – .26-inches
- April 1 – .34-inches
- April 2 – .41-inches
- April 4 – .03-inches (unofficial)
The water levels at Lake Nacimiento and Lake San Antonio reservoirs have been seemingly unaffected by this seasons rainfall. Lake Nacimiento remains at 22 percent of capacity with Lake San Antonio at five percent. Both lakes have received about 5.5-inches of rainfall this season.
