In case you’ve been wondering, it’s been a year.
That’s the last time Gilroy has experienced “rolling up the windows and turning on the windshield wiper” weather according to National Weather Service forecaster Diana Henderson.
Drizzles and passing light showers aside, the city has been dry this fall and that comes on the heels of two years of below-normal rainfall. In a normal year 20.83 inches fall, but the last two years netted 14.67 inches or 71 percent of normal and 11.7 inches or 57 percent of normal, respectively.
However, the Farmers’ Almanac and the National Weather Service predict normal rain amounts this winter.
“There is some wet weather predicted but I think it will be about average for this winter,” said Sandi Duncan, managing editor of Farmers’ Almanac.
Henderson expects the rain to pick up this November, although she leaves the exact dates up to the clouds.
