On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:39:33 -0800, "David E. Ross"
>Persephone wrote:
>> Hallelujah! After a dry fall/winter, with only two mini-mists,
>> we're having a real rain today! The plants are thirstily drinking in
>> the good sky water, after months and months of treated faucet water.
>>
>> Now, to gird my loins for weeding,weeding, and more weeding as
>> as soon as rain ends (downside)
>>
>> Upside: getting my tomato seeds into the nice, lovely, welcoming
>> earth.
>>
>> Persephone
>>
>> (So. Calif Coastal)
>Where I live, we've had 3.47 inches in the current rainy season. Yes,
>in southern California every 0.01 inch is important.
>In Los Angeles, I believe this January was the driest January on record.
> The Sierra snowpack is less than half the average for this date.
>Fortunately, the reservoirs are still quite full from the heavy rains of
>two years ago.
>By the way, the rainy season is reckoned to run October through
>September, to have "years" that don't change in the middle of a storm.
>However, little or no rain is expected after April or before November.
Reckoned according to whom??
I've been out here nearly 40 years, and we've never, that I can recall
had rain after March/April or before November, even in a good rain
year.
Remember, I'm talking coastal, and you're in the mountains,
from what I can tell.
Persphone
Persephone
Persephone wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:39:33 -0800, "David E. Ross"
>
>> Persephone wrote:
>>> Hallelujah! After a dry fall/winter, with only two mini-mists,
>>> we're having a real rain today! The plants are thirstily drinking in
>>> the good sky water, after months and months of treated faucet water.
>>>
>>> Now, to gird my loins for weeding,weeding, and more weeding as
>>> as soon as rain ends (downside)
>>>
>>> Upside: getting my tomato seeds into the nice, lovely, welcoming
>>> earth.
>>>
>>> Persephone
>>>
>>> (So. Calif Coastal)
>> Where I live, we've had 3.47 inches in the current rainy season. Yes,
>> in southern California every 0.01 inch is important.
>>
>> In Los Angeles, I believe this January was the driest January on record.
>> The Sierra snowpack is less than half the average for this date.
>> Fortunately, the reservoirs are still quite full from the heavy rains of
>> two years ago.
>>
>> By the way, the rainy season is reckoned to run October through
>> September, to have "years" that don't change in the middle of a storm.
>> However, little or no rain is expected after April or before November.
>
> Reckoned according to whom??
>
> I've been out here nearly 40 years, and we've never, that I can recall
> had rain after March/April or before November, even in a good rain
> year.
>
> Remember, I'm talking coastal, and you're in the mountains,
> from what I can tell.
>
> Persphone
>
> Persephone
>
The "rain year" is reckoned by the California Department of Water
Resources. See <http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/current/EXECSUM> ,
where they call it the "water year".
I'm in Oak Park, which is in the Santa Monica Mountains (little more
than hills), about 2.5 miles north of the Ventura Freeway between
Thousand Oaks and the San Fernando Valley. In the summer, we get ocean
breezes from the Oxnard Plain. See my
<http://www.rossde.com/oakpark.html> .
--
David E. Ross, President
Community Foundation for Oak Park
<http://www.OakParkFoundation.org/>
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>> Hallelujah! After a dry fall/winter, with only two mini-mists,
>> we're having a real rain today! The plants are thirstily drinking in
>> the good sky water, after months and months of treated faucet water.
>>
>> Now, to gird my loins for weeding,weeding, and more weeding as
>> as soon as rain ends (downside)
>>
>> Upside: getting my tomato seeds into the nice, lovely, welcoming
>> earth.
>>
>> Persephone
>>
>> (So. Calif Coastal)
>Where I live, we've had 3.47 inches in the current rainy season. Yes,
>in southern California every 0.01 inch is important.
>In Los Angeles, I believe this January was the driest January on record.
> The Sierra snowpack is less than half the average for this date.
>Fortunately, the reservoirs are still quite full from the heavy rains of
>two years ago.
>By the way, the rainy season is reckoned to run October through
>September, to have "years" that don't change in the middle of a storm.
>However, little or no rain is expected after April or before November.