Update, Tuesday, Jan. 19: The rather modest little Tuesday storm that was featured in the Bay Area forecast turned out to have a bit of a punch after all.
The early-morning rain prompted the National Weather Service to post an urban and small stream flood advisory for the entire nine-county Bay Area and then, when that expired at midmorning, similar alerts for virtually the entire Sacramento Valley and the northern San Joaquin Valley, as well as western Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.
Rain totals for the 12 hours ending at 10 a.m. Tuesday are -- what's a good word? -- robust.
Santa Rosa recorded 1.51 inches of rain, San Rafael 1.18 inches, downtown San Francisco 1.17 inches, the Oakland Museum 1.08 and San Jose International Airport .40. The reliably rainy mountain and ridge weather stations got significantly more, including 2.88 inches at Venado, west of Healdsburg, 2.47 inches at Mount Tam's Middle Peak, 2.13 at Ben Lomond in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 1.54 atop Mount Diablo and 1.52 on Vollmer Peak in the Berkeley Hills.
We'll be updating our rainfall table, and maybe turning it into a nice map, when we get a little breathing room.