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January 03, 2005
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Interesting little factoid:
It's 3 January. Here in downtown Los Angeles, we have already exceeded our average annual rainfall.
Update: Heard something on the radio on 11 January that cast into doubt whether what I said here was true or not. Ultimately, I don't know, but I discovered that there is a calendar year and then there is a water year. It might very well be true that we've exceeded the average annual rainfall based on the water year, which appears to run from July to June. Not sure if we've exceeded it for the calendar year, though.
Here's an article about California weather.
For what it's worth, the average annual rainfall looks like it's 14 inches. Just this past weekend, with sustained rain from Friday through Tuesday (there's sun today, but there are showers throughout the day), we've picked up 6 inches and maybe more. It's definitely more outside downtown Los Angeles. There's talk about mudslides and death tolls in Ventura, something about a house that's threatening to slide down a hill in Glendale, and a woman that crossed a flood control barricade lost her two year-old when it was swept away in the current.
That's just five days of rain. I had no appreciation of what fourty days and fourty nights of rain may have caused until now.
Posted by KinCross at January 3, 2005 11:02 AM