It's RAINING in San Diego!!! First time in over 6 months.

[BigmanPigman]

[shenmue]

1. Eeek

[Boxerfan]

2. Bike riders beware-oil surfaces on 1st rains.....

And damn-that map.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Or so it seems.

[lunasun]

4. What's that rainbow bubble area on the southern border east of y'all or is that for calibration ?

It makes it look like there is an area on the map with way above normal precipitation

[BigmanPigman]

5. That tiny area lucked out and got monsoonal precip

It is so dry that any moisture from Nimbus clouds dries up before it can reach the actual ground. It is REALLY bad here... bugs, allergies, local crops are all effected. Any initial rain, like what we are getting now, runs off the baked ground. It is as if the earth/soil is asphalt. We need slow, steady rain over a long period of time for it to sink in and make a difference.

My dog forgets what rain is. I let her go outside and she just stood there like, "What is this wet stuff?".

[lunasun]

6. So it's real and got the monsoons that are normal during this period in the area thanks

I think that's how it's suppose to go in the fall out there . I'm in the Midwest
My cousin in AZ told me over the holidays when we spoke via the phone that he couldn't even remember the last time it rained where he is. Same there also. Told me some of his plants he never has to water in fall needed a hosing because they were affected.

Here in Chi Town -9 last week with Siberia like wind chills feeling like its even colder
Now This week, +52 predicted for this Thursday

Enjoy your rain hope it helps and more comes for you

[BigmanPigman]

8. This is not the norm. It should have rained by now normally. Look at the illustration.

We are FAR below the norm. Climate Change is going to be weather of "extremes". Last year we had 150% of normal rain. Hot, cold, dry, wet will be one or the other in the future. No "grey" area. This is true for the entire planet. This is the future and our govt is doing nothing!

[lunasun]

10. I meant the whole So Cal normally gets rain like that from monsoons at this time of year no?

But just that little area got what's normal usually for the whole region yes ?
including I think that is where the rain comes for my cousin in AZ usually the monsoons at this time of the year. Not this year as I mentioned. Unless I have the wrong time of the year ....
Anyway pass some of that rain on to AZ where he sorely needs it.

Yep we are in temp extremes here 60 degrees swing in a week is extreme !

The current regime is increasing the problem with thier renewed focus on fossil fuels which is even worse than ignoring it - they are IMO accelerating climate change

[BigmanPigman]

11. Yes, the rain is supposed to

start with some rain during the fall months. This year we got ZERO. So we started this "rainy season" at a loss.

Australia is HOT and 20 degrees above normal now. Europe has had bizarre weather there much like we have had here. Droughts, fires, storms taking odd tracks producing emergencies, etc.

The Climate Change deniers know that they are lying through their teeth. They are not stupid, they are greedy sociopaths who do not care how much harm they knowingly cause millions of people as long as they benefit their own personal agenda which is money and power.

[JayhawkSD]

13. Monsoon comes in the summer.

July thru early Sept is monsoon season; rain in the form of afternoon thunderstorms. Eastern San Diego county gets some of the effect, but it seldom crosses the mountains to the coastal areas, so San Diego usually goes all summer with essentially no rain at all.

Winter rainy season, with storms lasting all day to several days and steady, soaking rain, starts in November usually, sometimes late October. These are storm systems that come down out of the north. That season lasts until March, and sometimes goes into April.

San Diego has an average annual rainfall less than does Tucson, AZ.

[lunasun]

14. Thanks and I did not know that about SD average . I think the monsoons hit AZ where he is.

A few years ago I was a week in LA in Feb . Everyone said expect sone rain but it was hot and sunny instead . I think that was another year you CA folks were starting the year way below average and went later in to a drought . I hope you folks get what you need this year.

We had extreme cold like this in Chicago 2014 but this year we broke some records and + 53 like now predicted for Thursday is something of a normal temp for maybe March here

[MLAA]

7. Love the smell of rain.

I live in a desert, so I never get tired of the smell of rain on the rare occasion we get it. 🙂

[BigmanPigman]

9. I could smell it 4 hours before it got here.

I thought I was the only one who noticed this sort of thing.

[doc03]

12. Hey it got above freezing for the first time in 2 weeks in Ohio and we got rain instead of snow.

Good you got rain you need it, saw lake Meed and Powell this summer both were down over 100 feet.