moi621 (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:29 am River, we have erected a storm sign pointing the way to Wisconsin.

One is on the way, at least two more to follow.

Let Moi know when you have had enough.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:48 pm Rain? Tornado warnings today in Southern California.

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:48 pm Rain? Tornado warnings today in Southern California.

coinflipper_21 (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:16 pm The weather patterns of the California coast are quite predictable if you view them in the long term. If you have read "Two Years Before the Mast" (If you haven't, much of it is about whaling and trading on the California coast in the mid 1830s.) , Dana describes California in the drought conditions that we have had in the last several years. In the epilogue, he returns to California twenty years later and marvels at the changes brought on by wet weather. When I commented on this to a friend, an oceanography professor, he told me that my idea that Dana had correctly observed the long term weather pattern on the California coast was correct.

When I first moved to California, in 1951, The winter rains were terrible. There was winter flooding and landslides. (It even snowed on the Hollywood Hills a few times.) This was the pattern through the '50s, then it got drier. for about twenty years. People worried that California was going to run out of water, but the rains returned, the reservoirs filled, the snow pack deepened, and people worried about winter flooding and land slides again. Then it got drier, Now it's getting wet. We've had over two inches of rain in the last 24 hours, where I am, and there is a procession of storms approaching the coast for this entire week. Here we go again.

If experience can be relied upon, it will be like this for the next three to five winters, confounding Weather Service computer models. Then, it will get dry again. The pattern is clear, you just have to be around long enough to see it.

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:00 am Not totally true, Orange county is Republican most likely the most republican district in the country and it has loads of people.

Losethem (imported) wrote: Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:10 am River... Orange county is not as Republican as it once was. Loretta Sanchez (a very liberal Democrat) was elected from there to a formerly staunchly Republican house seat. Almost as reliably republican as the Senate seat in Massachsuetts was Democratic.

Still, the point of this post is where the water falls. Southern California doesn't need the rain nearly as much as the north does. It's quite telling when Castaic Lake is 100% full, but the reservoirs in the north are running around 50%.

--LT

Mac (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:34 pm I lived in Sacramento the winters of 1951-1952 & 1952-1953 and remember having a lot of rain.