With Yesterday’s Rain Santa Rosa Breaks Previous Rainfall Record

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FILE - In this March 10, 2016, file photo, runoff from heavy rain flows into vineyards along Highway 121 with the Gloria Ferrer Caves and Vineyards in the background in Sonoma, Calif. A heavy dousing of autumn rain in Northern California has lifted a quarter of the state out of drought, the highest percentage in more than three years, according to a new federal report. Water officials who oversaw mandatory water conservation by cities and towns emphasized three-fourths of the state remains in the five-year drought. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

  The city of Santa Rosa is officially experiencing its wettest year since rainfall record keeping began in 1902.  According to the National Weather Service, yesterday’s precipitation pushed this year’s rainfall total to 55-point-75 inches since October 1st, eclipsing the previous record of 55-point-68 inches in 1983.  Since October 1st, the official start of the rain season, it’s rained 92 of 188 days in Santa Rosa, or 49-percent of the time. And the forecast calls for at least another one-and-a-half inches in Santa Rosa through tomorrow.