Menlo Park rainfall for the week of Sept. 17-23 is 0.2 inches, said Bill Russ, who has a rain gauge in his backyard on Cotton Street. The total for the 2007-08 rainfall season is 0.2 inches, compared to 0.00 inches last year at this time. The season runs from July 1 to June 30. A normal season’s rainfall in Menlo Park is 16 inches to 18 inches.
Ted Bache’s rain log
Ted Bache of Stanford Weekend Acres near Menlo Park e-mailed this message on Sept. 24: Sunday morning, after logging the 0.2-inch of rain we had in the previous 24 hours in my rain log that I have been keeping for 12 years now, I decided to flip back and see how many other Septembers there were when we got wet. There were, in fact, 10 occasions when I noted something like “trace,” “decks wet” or an actual number — such as 0.2 for Sept. 9, 1999; and 0.1 for Sept. 26, 2001; and 0.1-plus for Sept. 21, 2005.
