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This could mean a wetter-than-average winter ahead for Californians, following the third wettest on record, with 22.4 inches of precipitation falling in the Bay Area last year.
"Based on past history, it looks like we're going to have a normal or above-normal rainfall season," said John P. Monteverdi, a professor of meteorology at San Francisco State University."To me, it's good news," said Monteverd."We want at least normal rainfall, following our record year last year…And to me, it looks like a good chance that we will see that."
SF Fleet Week faces possible cancellation in government shutdown If the government does not secure funding, Navy spectacles such as the Parade of Ships and the aeronautic acrobatics of the Blue Angels may be axedThe 2015-16 El Niño, for example, led to average rainfall in San Francisco but drier conditions in Los Angeles."If we have something like we did in 2015 and 2016, it isn't as good of news," he added.
While Monteverdi doesn't expect the short-term, intense rainfall that leads to immediate flooding, he did say that continual rain throughout the winter could result in mudslides.
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