To update everyone with the drought condition improvements we have seen in the Southwest due to the impressive rains last week, lets take a quick look at a few maps to show that progress…..
The first map is that of conditions as of January 12th, 2009.  You can clearly see that most of California and Arizona [...]

The National Weather Service has revised and added a few additional cities to the rain total of last week storms, some amazing totals…

MISCELLANEOUS HYDROLOGIC DATA
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RRMSGX

RAINFALL STORM TOTAL SUMMARY…PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
600 PM PST SAT JAN 23 2010

**** UPDATED ****
** NEW CITIES [...]

As of 10:50 am 5 day rain totals released by the National Weather Service (SD) are impressive!
MISCELLANEOUS HYDROLOGIC DATA

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RRMSGX

RAINFALL STORM TOTAL SUMMARY…PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
1050 AM PST THU JAN 21 2010

12 HOUR RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THE PERIOD 5 DAY TOTALS
BEGINNING: [...]

This afternoon we saw the first in a series of storms that will affect Southern California this week. Today the rain started in the Coachella Valley around 2:30pm and was a steady, moderate rainfall until it ended around 5:30pm.
Here at DesertWeather headquaters (Thousand Palms) we saw some impressive rain between 3pm and 3:30 with rainfall [...]