Here in LA, it is raining. Not just a brief drizzle, but a real prolonged heavy rainstorm! I think this is probably the earliest storm I have seen since I moved here in 1977. Perhaps this foretells a wet winter season. As the Mexicans say, the baby is crying!
At any rate, I hope it will shut up the politicians, who keep blaming our water shortages on drought, a blatant lie, and not overpopulation, the true cause. We get as much rain as ever, on average. cite
We have had a remarkably mild summer, and now this. If this is global warming, give me more!
No, really. I can’t tell you how many times I heard similar phrases. KROQ’s Kevin & Bean liked to joke about it all the time. Heard some TV weather reporters say it too.
Reports I’ve heard say there’s an El Niño (‘A the Child’?) this year, so it should be wetter down there. Up here in the PNW we’re expecting a warmer, less wet Winter.
I miss KROQ. I assume they have streaming audio, but the VP where I work doesn’t like people to leave their browsers open because she says it slows the system to a crawl and customers need to get in. Still, KEXP (a listener-supported station) plays newer music and is great to listen to. But sometimes I miss the juvenile antics of Kevin & Bean, and Lisa May’s comments.
Back to the weather.
Rain and showers for the next week, with windows of dry periods. High winds down in Oregon, and a mite breezy here. The leaves have not all fallen from the trees, so I expect power outages as the wind knocks them into power lines.
California has a Mediterranean climate, meaning that in a normal year it hardly rains at all for months at a time. In the San Francisco Bay Area we get almost no rain from May through September. Some of us forget what rain looks like, thus the reactions when we get a storm in October.
Seriously, this really was a big storm for the time of year. Many cities in the Bay Area got more than three inches of rain in 24 hours (for the rest of the world, that means more than 7.6 cm), and some got much more than that.
