Statement: “The last time we experienced a December this wet, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House,” wrote Michael Hogan, chairman of the San Diego County Water Authority board of directors, in an editorial the Union-Tribune published March 6.
Analysis: Hogan’s historical reference is accurate. The series of storms that pounded Southern California in December were some of the wettest in San Diego’s recent history. Gauges at Lindbergh Field counted five inches of rainfall in the month. It hasn’t rained that much in December since 1965, two years after Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the nation’s 36th president.
Fact Check: December's Historically High Rainfall
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