INLAND EMPIRE – (INT) – With more than a month to go, this rainfall season is on track to becoming one of the wettest on record.

The State Department of Water Resources says rainfall is more than twice the average for this time year throughout the state. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the snowpack’s water content is 188 percent of normal. Updated measurements will be taken March 1st.

In the Inland Empire, Riverside has measured more than 12 inches of rain since last October compared to an average of about 5-inches. At 16-inches, Lake Elsinore is 192 percent of normal. Even in the desert, Indio’s 2.78 inches is 139 percent of normal.

In the local mountains, 85 inches of snow has fallen at Big Bear so far this season compared to a normal of 63 inches.

Throughout California, there has been more precipitation than what normally falls in an entire year.

Story Date: March 2, 2017