{"id":266921,"date":"2026-04-14T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266921\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:08:09","slug":"after-three-heavy-days-of-rain-how-wet-did-oakland-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/266921\/","title":{"rendered":"After three heavy days of rain, how wet did Oakland get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skies opened up on Oakland this weekend. Roads and highways were flooded as nearly opaque sheets of rain hammered down.<\/p>\n<p>So exactly how much rain did we get?<\/p>\n<p>Over three days, from Friday through Sunday, Oakland got 1.77 inches of rain, more than double what\u2019s normal for the first 12 days of April, which is 0.72 inches.<\/p>\n<p>The drenching still wasn\u2019t enough to remedy a dry Oakland year, however. The rainfall season begins on July 1, and according to data from the California Nevada River Forecast center, Oakland is at <a href=\"https:\/\/ggweather.com\/seasonal_rain.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15.72 inches of rain<\/a> for the season, 84% of normal.<\/p>\n<p>After a wet season last year, large stretches of California, including Oakland and most of the Bay Area, are now considered <a href=\"http:\/\/ca\" rel=\"nofollow\">abnormally dry<\/a>, according to the US Drought Monitor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gform_required_legend\">&#8220;*&#8221; indicates required fields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The skies opened up on Oakland this weekend. Roads and highways were flooded as nearly opaque sheets of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[642,143,145,144,62],"class_list":["post-266921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-drought","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}