There's Always The Weather

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Fortunately, I live on high ground

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Last night it began raining cats and dogs again. I think I inherited Paolo's weather.

[kristoff]

Last night it began raining cats and dogs again. I think I inherited Paolo's weather.

don't complain. there's a drought going on. you need the cats and dogs

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

True about the drought. It stopped raining today

[JesusA (imported)]

California is a large state with a variety of microclimates across its length and breadth. All of it, though, falls into the Mediterranean Climate classification (Winter Wet, Summer Dry). The "rain year" is measured from summer to summer, rather than by the calendar year. In my particular location, the average annual rainfall since record keeping began is 36.28 inches. The average from the beginning of the rainy season until December 17th is 9.74 inches. (Most of the rain falls in January through March). Last year we had only 3.21 inches by this date. A third of the average. This year we are already at 21.45 inches. More than double the average. We need more to recharge the depleted ground water for our wells, but this is not a drought year so far.

Today is bright sun and 50°F with no rain predicted until after the first of the new year.

[moi621 (imported)]

Fortunately, I live on high ground

Having your home boosted on blocks

does not count as living on the high ground.

Seriously I thought you lived out in those flatlands of the desert

where the storm drains don't flow but just fill up, being so level and all.

Where a cloud burst of heavy rain floods streets.

You know those places, don't you?

Lows in the High 40's and Highs around 60F.

Sunny, clear, no wind but Santa Ana conditions.

The airplanes are landing from the ocean rather than taking off that way from Santa Ana SNA.

3 chances of rain in the ten day forecast. El Ninozilla was never this wet.

Got an inch in the last event, over hours of light rain. No radar yellows or oranges.

I hear the EA:hearthrobLand is like -10 and -6.

Now what is the High when both numbers are minus?

Moi

Watching Fargo and imagining.

[kristoff]

I hear the EA:hearthrobLand is like -10 and -6.

Now what is the High when both numbers are minus?

Moi

Watching Fargo and imagining.

Some places 20-25 degrees below 0 F. Warmed up in Minneapolis to about -5 F this afternoon. But starting Monday-Tuesday it is supposed to get balmy again. High on Tuesday is supposed to be 34+ F. T-shirt weather almost. Anyway, the air conditioning is still turned off.

[Paolo]

turned off, my ass.

It's sitting in your garage.

[Dave (imported)]

Last night, western PA got almost an inch of rain.

This morning (Sunday, 18th Dec.) most of southwestern PA (the lower Allegheny, the upper Monongahela and Ohio river basins), big chunks of West Virginia, and a couple counties in Maryland (in that funny handle of Maryland that extends to the west, all had flash flood warnings.

The weather videos are stunning.

There is nothing that compares to a gurgling country creek or brook in the summer that during heavy rains rises several feet above the usual level and over the banks. Four lane highways and boulevards become 6 inch deep puddles (that's enough to stakeout a car and float it away)...

In the fall and early winter like now, the storm sewers back up with leaves and brush... Suddenly the sewers above that blast water out like giant firehoses and fills the streets. Never drive through standing water or water rushing across a street like that.

This rain kept me awake most of the night. Someone else should share that little misery

[moi621 (imported)]

Rain !

El Nino '15-'16 was never this wet.

It rained again.

From the early morning hours, on and off.

No cloud bursts or heavy downpours.

Just Green Zone on the Doppler Radar.

A Good Sod Soaker.

More rain coming too and through the holidays.

Temps in the mid-sixties.

Moi