2022-2023 California Rainfall Season in Review Today marks the end of the very impressively wet 2022-2023 California rainfall season which began on July 1st. [See https://ggweather.posthaven.com/rainfall-season-vs-water-year for a discussion of why this differs from the Water Year traditionally used by hydrologists]. And while the rainfall totals are huge compared to recent years, they fell well short of being the all-time wettest. Additional links to some of this data can be found at: https://ggweather.com/ca2022rain.htm and https://ggweather.com/seasonal_rain.htm.