Storm sets records Around Town, posted by Editor, Mountain View Voice Online, on Apr 13, 2012 at 2:41 pm
The storm that struck Thursday night triggered more than 700 lightning strikes around the Bay Area, set new records for rainfall and left thousands without power, officials said today.
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Posted by Seer Clearly, a resident of the Blossom Valley neighborhood, on Apr 14, 2012 at 9:28 am
Our weather this year is following the pattern that the climatologists have told us we'd expect from Global Warming: much less precipitation, with more of it falling as rain instead of bankable snow deposits, and much of the rain we do get arriving in far more violent, flooding storms. Essentially this is the weather you see 500 miles south in Baja California, which is a desert with huge sandy gullies from all the large storms.