Local rainfall totals: not too much in the mountains.

The Foothill Weeklies has parsed the weather data for the local area. Looks like about 1" in Pasadena (squares with the rain gauge in my garden), 1.5" in Sierra Madre,.

What was notable though, I thought, is that the mountain totals were barely any higher. Opids Camp, in the Angeles National Forest, which is reputed to be the rainiest place in L.A. County. got just 2.07".

My recollection from storms last year was that Opids would frequently get up to eight times as much rain as the foothill cities.

Incidentally, I think I have been living in SoCal too long, because my first palpable reaction when the rain suddenly began to pour down last night was to feel very nervous- I'm just not used to it anymore (I used to live in Washington State, and tropical Maui, both very rainy). Obviously, I got used to it after about 30 seconds, and called myself an idiot. My cat reacted the same way, rocketing through his cat door from outside about 5 seconds after the first sound of rain hitting the pavement.