SACRAMENTO, Calif. — You can almost always count on February to be cold with some of the most rain during the year in Northern California.
Almost, at least.
This February, however, we've experienced day after day of dry weather. One weekend, Modesto saw a trace of rain and you could call that community lucky.
Most Northern California Valley and coastal areas have not seen a drop of rain in February. Short term forecasts show the next possible rain late on Saturday, Feb. 29, the extra day in 2020 for leap year.
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And while rain is in the forecast, the odds are stacked against Sacramento and San Francisco, with the probability that these cities will end February without any rain in the bucket. And for Sacramento, that has not happened since they started keeping records during the Gold Rush in July 1849.
For San Francisco, the last time the city didn't experience any rain was in 1864, when Abraham Lincoln was President.
The weather has also been remarkably warm with temperatures routinely hitting highs of 70s throughout the month of February. You often see that in April, but not in February. The warmest temperature on recorded in Sacramento is 80 degrees for the downtown location. That happened in 1899 and 1985 and could happen again before the month is done.
All eyes are on March to see something that resembles winter and that could happen on the first day. Light showers are forecast for the Sierra foothills on Sunday, March 1, along with a few inches of Sierra snow.
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