Rainfall will dampen Tracy for a few days this week, but February’s rains still will not make up for a dry January.

As of Monday afternoon, the seasonal total is at 5.12 inches, according to the Tracy Press rain gauge. The nearly 2 inches of rain that have fallen so far this month places this February’s total close to the average rainfall for February, with two more days of rain to go. Tracy’s average rainfall is between 12 and 14 inches per year, with the rainy season typically lasting through April.

Forecasters from the National Weather Service expect that Monday night’s rains will continue through today, tonight and Wednesday, with thunderstorms possible in northern San Joaquin Valley on Wednesday. Skies are expected to be partly cloudy or mostly cloudy through the weekend.

The weather report is good news for ski resorts, which will benefit from the fresh powder that will fall on the slopes already blanketed in snow the last few days.

Bear Valley Mountain Resort on Highway 4 in Alpine County received a reported 2 feet of fresh snow late last week and about 3 feet of snow over the weekend.

Merri Donovan, e-marketing manager for the resort, said the snow was still falling Monday morning, which works out well for skiers who have been waiting through a dry winter for fresh powder.

“Business has been great. Snowfall has definitely been later than in previous years,” she said.

The rain and snow also are good news for the state’s water managers. Michael Anderson, state climatologist for the Department of Water Resources, said this month’s precipitation totals for the state are about 140 percent of average so far for February, “so we’re starting to fill in the deficit from January,” he said.

So far, rainfall for the entire season is about 80 percent of the average in the state, and the snowpack ranges from about 60 percent of average in the northern part of the Sierra to 45 percent in the southern Sierra. He said that doesn’t worry water managers because there was so much rain and snow last spring.

“The reservoirs carried over as much as they could, which puts them at flood control stage,” he said.