On Jan 22, 7:47*pm, "Keith(Southend)"
wrote:
January 2010 * * * * * *17th * *18th * *19th * *20th * *21st
************
Los Angeles/Ca(32m) * * 6.6 * * 19.1 * *18.0 * *27.7 * *18.8mm

San Francisco/Ca(5m) * *2.0 * * 18.3 * *39.4 * *32.8 * *21.1mm

Phoenis/Az(337m) * * * *- * * * 0.8 * * 21.6 * *9.1 * * 24.6mm

Tucson/Az(779m) * * * * - * * * 0.3 * * 10.2 * *- * * * 25.9mm

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Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Thanks Keith and well sourced. Very interesting totals. I'd seen the
reports of very heavy rain in California; even "Steve Wright in the
Afternoon" made reference to them and I'm not sure how bright he is (!
- no offence to Steve, I quite like him, but he does cultivate that
slightly less than highly intelligent persona; though he's far richer
than me and just about anybody who posts on here - probably - so
maybe he's far brighter than all of us!!).

It's almost certainly down to El Nino. The NOAA update, towards the
end of the slides I've linked to, has a section which is pertinent to
the USA and slide 32 explains a lot. I know I post this each Monday
and it gets few comments, but it is a very interesting and educational
read, honestly!

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...-fcsts-web.pdf