Weather Thread (San Diego, San Francisco, Orange: 2015, relocate to, business)

[JGC97]

And anyone who's ever asked me why I stay in California. It's the winter weather. Nothing compared to this . . .

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[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by DCMann2

I hope you're right regarding the wake up call, but I suspect the "solution" will simply be a push for more water to be moved from north to south with no caveats attached at all (requiring xeriscaping, low flow toilets/showers, FAR fewer golf courses, etc.).

Even as a child I thought it was stupid having such lush landscaping in Southern California and it worries me that so few other people realize it as well. They want their "perfect" (that is, sunny 300 days a year) weather and all the added benefits of a wetter climate as well. It's an extremely foolish, short sighted, and ultimately dangerous attitude to have.

Southern California is perhaps the most artificial man-made environment in the US. It bares no resemblance at all to what it should look like. Most other places use at least some native plant species or those from similar regions. That's not common at all here although the San Diego County admin building does have a native landscape garden.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

Southern California is perhaps the most artificial man-made environment in the US. It bares no resemblance at all to what it should look like. Most other places use at least some native plant species or those from similar regions. That's not common at all here although the San Diego County admin building does have a native landscape garden.

To be fair, most of the hill areas of SoCal are mainly natural veg. Lots of oak savannah, chaparral and coastal sage scrub to be found.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

There is some overriding of the ridge this AM (by a quasi-warm-front out in advance of the main occluded front which is set to hit this weekend). Actually tipped the bucket (just over 0.01) at our orographically favored location south of the Golden Gate.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

February will close out on the dry side. A few weak systems but that's it.

More encouraging is global circulation seems to be evolving toward a wet March.

[happyinca]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

February will close out on the dry side. A few weak systems but that's it.

More encouraging is global circulation seems to be evolving toward a wet March.

Finally some good news! Can you post your link? I have not seen that. I am off work today so I don't have the latest info. (I work in water). I would love to see good news after weeks of depressing news.

[Gentoo]

Tornado dynamics possible for Socal?


Southern California Weather Authority

[BayAreaHillbilly]

I know it's an old wives' tale, but still ... in like a lamb, out like a lion (at least this appears to be ringing true for everything north of about 35 or 36 N today). Pretty good cold front to be followed by a cold core low.

With that ... the inevitable question. Is the drought over? Sorry to say, it is not. As an example, the rain gage at SFO has recorded a mere 7-1/2 " since the start of the water year (e.g. since July 1, 2013). That is squarely in high desert territory. Hoping for an April miracle (and a May miracle, and a June miracle).

[DCMann2]

We're going to need two or three wet winters in a row to pull us out of the drought. Even with all the rain we've been having here on the north coast we're STILL only about 50% of our normal (20" compared to our normal 40"). It's raining right now and we're supposed to get more rain over the next week or so, so it's possible we'll have a wet spring and a hopefully wet winter.

[DMenscha]

Almost reached half of our annual rainfall average yesterday. Trying (unsuccessfully) to snow at 2000' this morning.