West Coast Rain
 

Yikes! How are all the West Coast Pellis doing with all of this rain?

We are used to it. We ignore it. We pretend it's not raining. California is not so used to it as we are. Weather events are getting....interesting. Longstanding meteorological records broken. And, even with all the rain we get here and the snow in the mountains, we sometimes must alternate landscape watering days. To preserve water.

I recently visited Lake Quinault. Saw the world's biggest Sitka Spruce (58-foot circumference, 191 feet tall) and learned the average annual rainfall there is 12 feet. There is a reason Seattle is called the Emerald City. Springtime all year.

Rain, but La Nina / warm, so ski season is starting poorly.

It's not over.

Up here in Auburn, north of Sacramento by about 35 miles, it's not a problem.

This was what I emptied out yesterday morning.
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That was a 24 hour total.
I haven't looked at how full it is this morning yet, but I imagine it's about the same as it rained a lot and hard last night.

We've had about a third of an inch of rain since yesterday. Right now it's clouds and blue skies and fifty degrees.

Last night's total:
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The grass will green up for Christmas after all this watering.

I have the headwaters of a small stream starting in my backyard.

Not kidding.

IT RAINS EVERYDAY IN SEATTLE.

please do not move here, we're full

I'm glad youse guys are OK. Some of the pics are scary. My hometown lies in the bend of the Passaic River and it is prone to flooding. The last storm flooded a section the small rt 20 going through Paterson and last night some of it had frozen over. What a mess that is.

From the ironically named Little Falls NJ

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nj-flooding-passaic-river-flood-wanye-paterson-little-falls

Pretty much done here for now. The storm is in AZ.

Ventura County northwest of L.A. got the worst of it. This is where the flooding was and the pics you see on the news.

The rain is glorious here in pnw. Trees are happy.

What with the dark clouds I don't like it getting dark at 2pm.

What I don't like at all are the new hot dry summers.

We got it pretty good in Castaic where we back up to the mountains. Maybe around 3 inches total. Looks to be clear for now until next Saturday when we'll get a little more.

At least they didn't shut down the Grapevine, that causes a real mess in town.

Rain, wind, fire & smog are the seasons in SoCal.
Breaking News @ 6; about 6 helicopters will go see if Pacific Palisades or San Clemente had more earth movement
This is the nice season until the smog, wind & fire season come.

You have to enjoy the feeling of stepping on and popping a slimy slug between your toes.

Pic from the dining room window. It’s going to be a beautiful Christmas!

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I haven't noticed any unusual rainfall amounts here at all...

♪♪ It never rains in California..♪♪

Beauty shot!

I got 3.5 inches on my rain gauge in Thousand Oaks in eastern Ventura County, mostly in about 12 hours Thursday. I suppose that's just a heavy fog in the PNW, but here in so Cal it's an EVENT. Some flooding on the flats in Oxnard & Port Hueneme.

The problem is not the amount of rain, it's that it all came at once, in a short period of time, and didn't have time to run off.

I think it rained all night last night. I was too drugged up from the flu to even noticed until I got out this morning and noticed the street was washed clean of leaves. I know its been on and off for the past few days. Nothing out of the ordinary.

San Diego a sunny day with blue skies and some rain.
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That place must sound like a symphony when the birdies are happy.

Loud companies of small green head parrots, white herrings and too many murders of large black crows. ;)
This guy grabs a lizards throws it 3 feet over his head and then lets it drop down his long neck with out taking a bite.
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The new year doesn't seem to be going too well wrt rain in the LA area. The reports don't paint a pretty picture. I can't imagine what a mudslide is like. :(

We seem to be in a sweet spot in terms of weather. I'm thankful for that. We're supposed to get about an inch & a half of rain today and tomorrow. We've had 12.2 inches since the first of the year according to my weather station, & it looks like we probably won't get snow here this winter. I know some people who live to the north and am in touch with them, but we seem to be getting by pretty well here so far.

The damage is also ongoing in that trees may fall up to a month after rains like this if the wind gets strong enough. Many do not have deep roots because of the lack of deep soaking.

Same goes for slides. The water takes awhile to soak deep into areas that might fo filled for stratified. It could be dry for 2 weeks and some land will give away. Mudslides and landslides are different things. We are having mudslides now but the landslides are coming. One of the wealthiest places in the county, Palos Verdes, is going to be a disaster zone. Parts of it are already. This is a problem all along the coast where the ocean meets the Pacific Coast (mountain) Range or bluffs.

And we haven't heard much from our local mountain inland communities yet. Where there was a fire there is now a lot of erosion. Most of it just goes into an uninhabited canyon. Some of it wipes out roads, streets and houses.

Last year's problems were caused in part by a much larger snowpack in the Sierra's. It wasn't until Spring that things started getting bad for many like the Tulare Lake forming after being dry for decades.

What I'm saying is that there are some immediate emergencies, but the carnage is yet to come.

I have lived in SoCal since 1964. These weather systems, now called atmospheric rivers, are not new. The worst in my memory was in the mid 70's, Our master planned, track community, had streets filled with water that overwhelmed the drainage. Tree's knocked over, police guarding creeks and overpass roads, a calamity by SoCal standards. I believe even a plastic lawn chair was knocked over.

I am not discounting the real pain some are encountering. Remember the mud slide in Montecito that closed highway 101 and swiped away the interior access roads. Basically cut off Santa Barbara from points South. Lives and hundreds of homes lost. What I am saying is this is nothing new. Yes rare, when combined with fire events, but certainty not new.

My rental home in Santa Barbara is good to go, The same home with flooded streets I mentioned prior. Some of the community homes in canyons and downhill likely not so good. I saw that too in the 70's.

I live along the Monterey Bay and we've been getting quite a bit of rain/wind up here too. Some local flooding and downed power lines but nothing too bad.

One good thing about this weather is that a passing storm left this nice full rainbow right outside my front door the other day.

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My oldest granddaughters are visiting this week and helped empty the rain gauge of last nights collection. It's been raining off/on all day here today.
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This was just a 24 hour total.

^^^^ Too cute :)

LOL at the shirt too ;)

Besides getting yelled at at a restaurant, we are fine with this round of rain. The storm we had couple weeks ago caused some mud slide at the bottom of our hill gave low clearance vehicles with bald tires a hard time. I called my grading guy, had him stopped by on his way home to scoop it up onto a safe area. Within 10 min, he's done, charged me 200 bucks.

I think you guys are getting our rain.

It's summer here but it usually rains once every few weeks or so. But there hasn't been a real rain for months and trees in the forests are looking half dead. Floppy leaves. Doesn't matter so much about the grass as it comes back fast, but the trees aren't looking too good.

I'm thinking about some Kayaking in Death Valley. The Desert is going to be a real flower fest this year. Purple, yellow and orange flowers as far as you can see.

We attended the Lit meet last year and it was right at the tail end of a big round of rain. This stuck 356 image made a lot of car forums. We passed this year with other stuff going on. I saw somewhere that the swap meet at Boys Republic was preemptively canceled due to the weather.

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That is near the top of my bucket list.

At this point there's mildew growing over the moss that grew over my driveway... that's how wet. Whenever we get a 2 day break I check out the roof and spray flex seal around the nails that pop off - because the WIND is ever worse ! I won't be raking for a year or 2, leaves are in sacramento now, same as my kid's car cover. My old cabrio bimmer has not had the top cover off for a month, still gonna smell like a shoe when it comes off... It's pretty insane, then again I remember winters in norcal sucked 20+y ago, before the drought, so I guess we're back to "normal+"

Thinking of you guys :cool:

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When I was in the 8th grade in Newbury Park we had a winter with a lot of rain but it was nearly the amount you folks are experiencing.

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This was after wet winter in 2003 (Death Valley)