More rain in Southern California!!!

[C Moon]

We've been having some nice rain in Southern California for the past 2 months. Nothing extreme, but enough to soak in the ground.
The drought we'd been having has left dirt in parks, yards and parkways—even last year's predicted "Godzilla El Niño" couldn't help us.
But now, after several rain storms, there are small green pieces of grass growing in the dirt—even in the winter.

Today's rain wasn't even predicted. It was supposed to be cloudy today. And I think we got well over an inch of rain—sounds like over 2" to me.
It stopped for a while. We went out and walked the dogs. It started up again, and now it's a heavy rain again.
HURRAY!!!
Happy Winter, DU'rs!

[PlanetBev]

1. It's glorious, isn't it?

Raining out here in Thousand Oaks! I really missed the sight and sound of rain all these years.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. I broke out an umbrella!

[C Moon]

20. Yes. It's absolutely beautiful. While walking the dogs it started back up

and I cherished every drop that hit my face.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. I know! Listening to the rainfall right now! 😎

[LonePirate]

3. That's good to hear. May these rain events continue for all of you in CA.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. I remember the storms in Michigan where houses were islands.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

6. rain

[C Moon]

14. :) !!!

[JI7]

7. i love when it's cloudy and dark and rains

[subterranean]

8. Here's a radar map you don't see very often.

Most of the country is dry except for Southern California and the Southwest.

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/

[Upthevibe]

9. Reporting from Redondo Beach here and I'm listening to the wonderful

sound of rain! It's great to listen to all snuggled up watching Christmas movies.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. I heard reported today that the heavy rains were due tomorrow.

Either "they" got it wrong or batten down the hatches! We've had pretty heavy rain in Costa Mesa with a break for sunshine mid afternoon.

[C Moon]

16. Wow. Cool!

Oddly enough, the rain predictions have been off. But in a rain-positive way.
For the past decade the predictions have always been portending heavy rain, then it only rains for 1/2 an hour.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. I drove from Santa Monica to Woodland Hills in it

It was both scary (why don't they paint reflective lane lines??) and enjoyable to drive in real weather.

I am loving the sight of green grass peeking out in the backyard and the sound of rain on windows.

[Kablooie]

12. I love the sound of rain when I sleep.

It's so rare out here.

[tblue37]

15. Here is a rain sound video for sleeping and meditation. (8 hours of it!) nt

[Cha]

13. Good for you guys! Come to think of it my sister in

San Diego did say it had been rainy and cloudy!

[C Moon]

18. I love San Diego! Especially Ocean Beachdog friendly heaven!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

23. I went to SERE school in San Diego.

[Cha]

24. I use to live there in the 80s.. and People's Food!

[marlakay]

17. I was driving through Sonoma County last weekend

and enjoyed the green hills.

I live up north so we get tons of rain, but nice to see down south.

[C Moon]

19. My dream is to move up north some day. Enjoy one the best places on earth: Northern California!

[marlakay]

21. Up in the liberal bubble!

I live in Humboldt. Must say considering who won glad to be surrounded by my peeps.

[C Moon]

22. Wow! When I was out of high school, I wanted to go to college there.

Then music got in the way and I stayed down here.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

29. Orange County went for Hillary. considering the mammoth ballot it is impressive.

Trick is to get the same people voting in 2018. Especially since off year elections send liberals into hiding.

[Jamaal510]

25. I live

upstate, but it's sort of the same thing. I'm also liking the increased rain. Once when I emailed my friend from Ukraine about how the California weather is during the winter, she told me in so many words that she can't imagine a winter this mild with only rain and no snow, and that we don't have a true winter.

[kysrsoze]

26. Santa Clarita is getting soaked lately, particularly tonight

We just moved here from Chicago in June, and the drought was the main thing we were concerned about. I had also read a recent article stating it would get worse throughout the 21st century. I'm hoping this year is the first step of proving that hypothesis wrong.

My understanding is all this rain won't come anywhere near replenishing the water table, but it's still good to see it happening a lot. But I believe the water supply coming from Northern California is much better this year. Let's hope it keeps up.

I would love to see some lightning and hear some thunder. That's one of the things I miss about Chicago.

[C Moon]

34. Yes. Probably lots of local snow, too.

[Warpy]

27. This tme you're not hogging it all, either

and we're supposed to get some wet stuff and white stuff here in NM, where it is desperately needed.

The storm is running smack dab into a cold front whistling through the high passes right now so it should be nice and messy.

[C Moon]

33. Great!

[pablo_marmol]

28. It's predicted to come down pretty heavy on the 24th.

I'll be at a friend's annual open house/pot luck.

[C Moon]

32. Really? Wow. It's raining hard today, too.

[malaise]

30. What a lovely present for the holidays

Happy Holidays

[C Moon]

38. Happy Holidays!!!

[FarCenter]

31. Any landslides yet?

[C Moon]

37. None that's I've heard. But it's been a slow rain. Not much in the way of heavy downpours.

[OnionPatch]

35. I'm loving it!

More rain predicted for this weekend. We live in the foothills and might even see some snow flurries on Christmas Eve!

[C Moon]

36. That's terrific! Wishing you a white Christmas!