All but 3 climate stations in California now above average precip for the water year to date.

[OnlinePoker]

One, Blue Canyon Airport, is at 203% of normal and only 10 inches short of the full annual (Oct 1 to Sep 30) total.

http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/awipsProducts/RNOWRKCLI.php

[Warpy]

1. 20 more years like this and the state can go back to its old profligate ways

but I think we all know that can't happen. The west is dry, it's supposed to be dry, barring the kind of climate shift that would likely kill most of us off.

[msongs]

2. it would not be unusual for the rain to completely stop the rest of this season. that's

how CA is. I recall one year of no rain all winter til March 1st then it rained every day in March (the march miracle it was called) and the year ended up above average overall

[NNadir]

3. I remember the "March Miracle" well. It had to around the early 90's.

I left California for good in '93.

I remember feeling really awful when there was nothing in December, January and February.

We were flushing toilets with shower water and we always had a bucket in the shower, and I always showered with my wife...sigh...

We lived in San Diego at the time, and when the rains came, we took a trip up to Big Sur to see the flowers.

It's strange in a way, how a state with so much natural beauty can actually be synthetic.

As a Southern Californian, I always felt more than a little guilt about the disappearance of Lake Owens.

Psychologically, I think, it's one reason I left.