What's up with the crappy southern california weather? (Irvine: transplants, real estate)

[HyperionGap]

Originally Posted by dexter14

Is anyone actually getting measurable rainfall? Ive seen sprinkles here but nothing even close to "rain", especially at a measurable level. The ground is hardly wet.

Yes. It is measurably raining.

[Cardiff Kook]

Originally Posted by tstieber

I'm in San Diego, and we are getting downpours. Already more than 2/3 of an inch at the airport. Hope you guys get it up there!

Yes, been pouring in SD for a while. My rain barrel has been overflowing for the past 2 hours.

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by dexter14

Is anyone actually getting measurable rainfall? Ive seen sprinkles here but nothing even close to "rain", especially at a measurable level. The ground is hardly wet.

There was a good fall of it driving through Fullerton and Buena Park on the way home to La Mirada today.

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by tstieber

I'm in San Diego, and we are getting downpours. Already more than 2/3 of an inch at the airport. Hope you guys get it up there!

Thank you, and we are! It was booming thunder this morning and more this afternoon.

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by k374

I had planned a great hike this weekend and now there is a flash flood watch in effect. Climate change is really screwing up the weather patterns in this place. Last couple of years it's intermittently crappy weather throughout the year. The weather is becoming much more unpredictable and not as nice as it once used to be.

Sorry the weather messed up your plans, but things do happen. Even though this climate change may well be human caused in part, it also has causes that have nothing to do with us.

Don't worry, though; I am sure August and September will more than meet your expectations. Hope you are hiking in high elevation; hiking in the local foothills can be brutal in the middle of the day with the temperature being in the high 90s or in the 100s.

[dexter14]

Originally Posted by mrsltd

There was a good fall of it driving through Fullerton and Buena Park on the way home to La Mirada today.

It started coming down pretty good about an hour after I posted that. Been raining ever since.

[Yaelle]

I love this rain. I hope it's the El Niño that mit be expected this winter.

But please note: summer in SoCal for a while now has been August, September, and October. June gloom has become July gloom the last couple years. And it is t shirt and flipflop weather now until Thanksgiving. The seasons shifted.

Sadly, I'm sure it will be miserably hot all Sept and Oct.

[GoldenZephyr]

The seasons haven't shifted. In geologic time, we have about 1 second worth of climate data recorded. We don't have detailed records of thousands of years and there is nothing that unexpected going on. People attribute everything to "climate change" with no knowledge or understanding.

There is nothing that unusual about what has happened, especially in an El Nino year. Tropical systems regularly move up the coast along Baja and spin moisture into the Southwest.

We have actually had some significant summer rains in the past 120 years of recorded climate history in July (about 1 second of geologic time). Mostly from tropical system remnants.

List of California hurricanes

Just a sample:

Pre–1930
After October 1854: A system considered to be a tropical cyclone made landfall over northern California, just north of the Golden Gate.[7]
October 2, 1858: The 1858 San Diego Hurricane approached very close to southern California. It brought several hours of hurricane and gale-force winds to an area stretching from San Diego to Los Angeles. This storm was reconstructed as just missing making landfall, dissipating offshore.[6]
Sometime before October 14, 1858: Since this tropical cyclone is reported in a newspaper as being only "one of the most terrific and violent hurricanes ever noted", the report may imply the existence of an earlier hurricane in southern California.[6] Other than occurring before the newspaper account was published (October 18, 1858), everything else about this "hurricane", including whether it even existed, is unknown.[6]
Before June or after October 1859: A system considered to be a tropical cyclone made landfall between Cape Mendocino and San Francisco Bay.[7]
August 11–12, 1873: Rain from a tropical storm fell on San Diego. The rain on August 12 set a record for wettest August day.[8]
July 20–21, 1902: The remnants of a hurricane brought rain to southern California.[9]
August 18–19, 1906: A tropical cyclone moved northward from the Gulf of California, and brought rain to southern California.[9]
September 15, 1910: The remnants of a hurricane brought rain to Santa Barbara County.[9]
August 26, 1915: The remnants of a tropical cyclone brought around an inch of rain to Riverside.[9]
September 11–12, 1918: The remnants of a tropical cyclone produced six inches (150 mm) of rain to the mountains of southern California.[9]
August 20–21, 1921: A tropical cyclone moved north from Baja California and into Arizona, producing rain in both southern California and Arizona.[9]
September 30, 1921: The remnants of a tropical cyclone moved northward from Baja California, and brought rain to Arizona and parts of California.[9]
September 18, 1929: A tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean dropped rain over southern California.[9]

1930s

September 28–October 1, 1932: The remnants of a hurricane brought four days of rain. Flash floods killed 15 people.[9]
August 25, 1935: A tropical cyclone moved northward from the south, and brought rain to southern California and parts of Arizona.[9]
August 9, 1936: A hurricane's remnants moved north and brought heavy rains to the Los Angeles area.[9]
September 4–7, 1939: The remnants of a hurricane brought over a year's worth of rain to parts of southern California.[9]
September 11–12, 1939: The remnants of a hurricane from the Gulf of California brought rain to parts of California.[9]
September 19–21, 1939: The remnants of a tropical cyclone brought rain to California.[9]
September 25, 1939: The 1939 California tropical storm made landfall near Long Beach.[9] Winds were near 80 km/h (50 mph) and rain was near 12 inches (300 mm). At sea, 48 people were killed. On land, 45 were killed in flooding, although these deaths may be partially attributable to a nasty thunderstorm immediately preceding the tropical storm.[5] This is the only known landfall in California by a tropical cyclone at tropical storm strength, during the twentieth century.[9]

1940s

September 1941: Moisture from a hurricane brought rain to California.[9]
September 9–10, 1945: The remnants of a tropical cyclone moved northward and brought rain to southern California.[9]
September 30–October 1, 1946: The remnants of a tropical storm brought several inches of rain to California.[9]

The list goes on and on. Tropical systems do have an effect on CA weather and they have happened and will continue to happen.

We need every drop of rain, and this is so welcome!

[Des-Lab]

The spoiled, prima donna attitude that some SoCal people exhibit is nothing short of appalling. Some of you seriously need to get over yourselves and for once, realize that you are not the only ones in your little universe.

The entire state is in dire, desperate need of any rain it can get. Did you not see what happened in Cajon Pass? That is just a harbinger of things to come if the dryness continues. This is what happens when you boast just a little too much (no rain) and what you ask for (no rain).

So we got a cool little system. It spoiled "your" outdoor plans. Too effing bad. Deal with it. Start by getting off your high horse. Ask the people whose cars and boats were torched and how their weekend turned out.

I am totally digging this weather. And finding other ways to enjoy myself while it's in progress. You can too. Enough with the tantrums already.

[mrsltd]

Originally Posted by Des-Lab

The spoiled, prima donna attitude that some SoCal people exhibit is nothing short of appalling. Some of you seriously need to get over yourselves and for once, realize that you are not the only ones in your little universe.

The entire state is in dire, desperate need of any rain it can get. Did you not see what happened in Cajon Pass? That is just a harbinger of things to come if the dryness continues. This is what happens when you boast just a little too much (no rain) and what you ask for (no rain).

So we got a cool little system. It spoiled "your" outdoor plans. Too effing bad. Deal with it. Start by getting off your high horse. Ask the people whose cars and boats were torched and how their weekend turned out.

I am totally digging this weather. And finding other ways to enjoy myself while it's in progress. You can too. Enough with the tantrums already.

+a lot ^ This.