Reporting live from the Silver Lake Meteorological Substation / Regional Civic Precipitation Division Headquarters. Total rainfall measured from whenever the hell it started raining December 7 to whenever the hell it ended: 1.40625 1.21562 inches (3.10007 cm):
Hah you beat me too it. I measured a healthy 1.1 inches in my corner of LA. Of course since this was such a cold storm the cars were completely iced over this am…it got that cold this AM!
We had ice this morning on about two inches of water in puddles in our yard. :)
Back when I was a Navy weather-guesser, during those arduous 12hr midwatches, we used to take bets on who would drink the rain gauge water — no peeking, bugs and all.
Even during wartime, boredom can sometimes be a soldier’s worst enemy ; )