# It's raining! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764 "2009-10-14T08:43:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/1 "2009-10-14T08:43:45Z")
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](http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox/climate/Los%20Angeles%20Yearly%20Rainfall%20-%20jo_8822_image001.gif) We have had a remarkably mild summer, and now this. If this is global warming, give me more! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/2 "2009-10-14T12:12:48Z")
I suppose we’ll be hearing about the mudslides soon. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/3 "2009-10-14T12:59:26Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I suppose we’ll be hearing about the mudslides soon. [You rang?](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_us/us_wildfires_storm) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/4 "2009-10-14T14:45:12Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > 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](http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox/climate/Los%20Angeles%20Yearly%20Rainfall%20-%20jo_8822_image001.gif) ‘Of course it will not alleviate the drought…’ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/5 "2009-10-14T15:32:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > KROQ’s Kevin & Bean liked to joke about it all the time. Heard some TV weather reporters say it too. They still play the, “Oh my God, IT’S RAINING!!!” clip from time to time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/6 "2009-10-14T15:40:07Z")
We got almost two feet of snow last week. I was _not_ ready for that. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/7 "2009-10-14T15:54:39Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > 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](http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/lox/climate/Los%20Angeles%20Yearly%20Rainfall%20-%20jo_8822_image001.gif) > > We have had a remarkably mild summer, and now this. If this is global warming, give me more! Here in the Bay Area it was pouring all day yesterday. Also quite unusual for so early in the season. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/8 "2009-10-14T15:58:18Z")
What is this rain of which you speak? Here in Merrie England we’ve had hardly any in weeks. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/9 "2009-10-14T16:00:52Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Here in the Bay Area it was pouring all day yesterday. Also quite unusual for so early in the season. Really? I was there a couple of weeks ago and the weather was beautiful and sunny. Apparently that’s unusual too. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/10 "2009-10-14T16:17:19Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > They still play the, “Oh my God, IT’S RAINING!!!” clip from time to time. 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-raining/513764/11 "2009-10-15T08:36:36Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Here in Merrie England we’ve had hardly any in weeks. 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.