The County of San Luis Obispo does not have a sensor in the city limits of Paso Robles, but all the surrounding sensors - Shandon, Creston, Hog Canyon, and Templeton - registered more than 2 inches, and the Paso Robles Water Yard, at 1230 Paso Robles Street, registered 2.6 inches as of Monday. With a historically severe drought receding into the past, another rainy year will keep hope and harvests alive. With a wet week in the outlook ahead, the agricultural community in Paso Robles is off to a good start for the season. The current rainfall for the season is just over 4” with some slight chances of rain over the next week. Picking up 1.14” overnight, Paso Robles Raif all totals topped the December rainfall average (2.33”) in just four days with 2.34” month-to-date. 17 after little more than 1/2 inch (.58) fell Thursday and Friday morning.

Last year, between Jand J(2018-19 season), the county measured 18.87 total inches.Ītascadero’s water company has a recorded historic seasonal average of 17.53 inches, with a total of 24.72 during the 2018-19 season and an Atascadero rainfall record of 29.8 inches in 2016-2017.įive or six inches in annual measurement is a significant difference, which can be explained by elevation or other geological factors.Rainfall totals ticked up to 7.27″ on Friday, Jan. The two locations record very different measurements, with AMWC measuring a consistently higher volume.įor the past 20 years, the County of SLO has measured an average of 12.56 inches of rainfall in Atascadero, with a high of 24.95 inches. On the heels of a short but severe fire season, statewide rainstorms complicated Thanksgiving travel but brought more than two inches of rain to Atascadero in just a few days of downpour.Īs of Sunday, December 1, 2019, the County of San Luis Obispo currently records a seasonal total of 1.97 inches with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association calling for rain through Wednesday.Īverage rainfall is impacted each year by the volume of rain received, and by the location at which it is collected - the Atascadero Mutual Water Company collects measurements at 6575 Sycamore at the confluence of Atascadero Creek and Salinas River, and the County of San Luis Obispo collects measurements from a source on private property at the northeast of Heilmann Regional Park. Since then, all of California has seen healthy seasonal rainfall, with reservoirs at or near capacity, and signs of drought all but a memory. Through December, strong rainfall of 4.96″ brought levels up to 6.51″ by the end of 2019.Īs with the rest of California, Atascadero has seen a rise in rainfall totals since the end of the last drought cycle - which was so extreme, it dried up the entire Atascadero Lake by 2015, before record rainfall replenished our local jewel. The upcoming storm, expected Saturday evening, is projected to bring almost two inches over four days. Currently, seasonal totals are reported as 11.21 inched by the Atascadero Mutual Water Company. The annual rainfall average for Atascadero is 17.53 inches, and the 2019-2020 season is inching that direction. March rainfall brought 3.92″ of much-needed rain to Atascadero. Read Atascadero Annual Rainfall Seasons report here.

Seasonal precipitation totals