First-ever rainless January in San Francisco history

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The month ended with a sun-drenched bang Saturday, an apropos ending for what was the driest January on record in San Francisco.

Not one drop of measurable rain fell on city streets in January, the first time that’s happened in recorded weather history, which dates back to the Gold Rush.

Other Bay Area cities, including San Jose, saw at most two one-hundredths of an inch during the same time, which was probably just real heavy fog with a drizzle rather than real rain, said Jan Null, former lead meteorologist for the National Weather Service and a meteorology consultant.

“It certainly has been a memorable January,” Null said.

Memorable because it didn’t look anything like a January.

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1. we are so screwed.

ignorant people blame it on smelt.
nobody is addressing the problem with solutions or mitigations.
what little that has been done only highlights the delay and the fail.
that is the crime in progress.
we are within an emergency here.