Amador County, and the rest of the greater Sacramento area, is on its way to breaking a rainfall record set more than 100 years ago: The record for the driest January since at least 1888-89. “Right now, we stand at .07 (inches). If we don’t see at least eight-hundredths of an inch between now and the 31st, we will break the record for the least amount of precipitation in the month for the month of January,”  Jared Leighton of the National Weather Service in Sacramento told News10.According to Leighton, the reason for the dry weather is a meteorological bumper or balloon sitting right along the California coastline, blocking wet weather systems from moving into the region. “There’s a high pressure ridge just off the coast of California that is pushing all the moisture coming out of the Pacific to the north, in turn, keeping us pretty dry,” said Leighton.