WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Here's a local news clip about the baby being rescued. Amazing that the baby was swept down to his house, and they were just outside at the right moment to hear it crying. Just incredible. 

http://www.ksby.com/story/37227392/man-rescues-baby-from-montecito-mudslide-wreckage

 

[Angel Oracle]

Caltrans will announce later today when the 101 around Montecito/Carpinteria reopens.

Update:  Closed until January 22

[fan_since79]

Looking at AccuWeather 14-day forecast for SoCal:

Possibility of drizzle this Friday. Maybe some rain on the 31st. Otherwise, plenty of sunshine.

Let the drought continue!

 

[Angel Oracle]

Heard from a friend, who talked to a friend in Goleta.   The reason for the long delay in getting the road cleared is that they are being deliberate about it due to people still being missing, and fearing that the missing may be found under the road debris.  

[Angel Oracle]

I hope the rain does hold off another week to 10 days, to get the cleanup complete in the Santa Barbara area.    But we can't have the drought continuing through March.   

[Tank]

2 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Heard from a friend, who talked to a friend in Goleta.   The reason for the long delay in getting the road cleared is that they are being deliberate about it due to people still being missing, and fearing that the missing may be found under the road debris.  

there are still three people listed as missing, including a kid.

[Angel Oracle]

And the 101 was re-opened yesterday.

[fan_since79]

AccuWeather forecast, next 14 days:

Sunny and dry. Chance of some drizzle this Thursday, and that's it. Highs in the low 80's by Sunday.

This would be a great time for another extended drought, considering the fragile condition of those hillsides.

 

[Angel Oracle]

Good point, just as long as some rain returns in February.   We can't afford another extreme drought.

Irony in all of this is that even Santa Barbara is only at its' normal rainfall for January 1 through the 22nd.   If the half inch in 5-10 minutes deluge hadn't happened, the mudslides/flooding may have been minimized because 2 1/3 inches in 24 hours itself usually does not produce anything like what was seen.      

[Tank]

it's amazing to me how quickly it became so dry and brittle after so much rain last winter. by june, it looked like the drought had gone on uninterrupted. it was really strange.

[Angel Oracle]

37 minutes ago, Tank said:

it's amazing to me how quickly it became so dry and brittle after so much rain last winter. by june, it looked like the drought had gone on uninterrupted. it was really strange.

There were only a few storms that dropped the water on us in January/February.   Likely that a lot became runoff, due to the drenching nature, and thus didn't go deep enough into the soil to help keep the vegetation alive longer?

[Homebrewer]

Up here we have had near zero rain and snow, and whats worse, it's way warmer than normal. There is very little snowpack on the Sierra crest, and it's green as spring and daffodils are blooming down here where it burned like never before last summer. 

Setting up for an even bigger disaster of one type or another. Stay tuned, this will be news soon.

[Angel Oracle]

And of course, no rain through February 7, with highs between 75-90 from January 27 - February 7.

At this rate, Orange County will wind up with just 2-3 inches of rain for the entire year (October 2017 - September 2018), the lowest amount since records were kept.   Only less than an inch has fallen in central Orange County from October 1 - January 24.

Permanent drought is here.    And the very few storms that hit will cause tons of damage.   What kind of F'd up weather is that?   Never used to be like that, back to 1877.

[Tank]

at school i ran my heater this morning and my a/c this afternoon.

[Angel Oracle]

28 minutes ago, Tank said:

at school i ran my heater this morning and my a/c this afternoon.

And that (extremes from nighttime to daytime) has happened so far this weather season far more than it ever has, since I moved back here in 1966.  There's the source for so many of the colds/flu this season. 

[well_red]

On 1/22/2018 at 3:56 PM, Homebrewer said:

Up here we have had near zero rain and snow, and whats worse, it's way warmer than normal. There is very little snowpack on the Sierra crest, and it's green as spring and daffodils are blooming down here where it burned like never before last summer. 

Setting up for an even bigger disaster of one type or another. Stay tuned, this will be news soon.

pretty grim up here too.  We've had one storm of note, and luckily it dropped a good amount of water.  but we've got an impossibly long way to go to get to our "average" of 40 inches/year.  I don't even think we got that much last year after the hose turned off in February, and before that it was 20 inches or so a year since 2011.  If this continues then the fire season next year could be apocalyptic all over southern california.

[Homebrewer]

1 hour ago, well_red said:

pretty grim up here too.  We've had one storm of note, and luckily it dropped a good amount of water.  but we've got an impossibly long way to go to get to our "average" of 40 inches/year.  I don't even think we got that much last year after the hose turned off in February, and before that it was 20 inches or so a year since 2011.  If this continues then the fire season next year could be apocalyptic all over southern california.

California fire season is now all year..and if this weather pattern holds (hot summers- no rain) it's just gonna get worse. I'm looking seriously at getting out of this state and going farther north.

[fan_since79]

AccuWeather extended forecast for the month of February for Socal shows nothing but "abundant sunshine" and temps in the 70's and 80's.

Only one day of possible rain, February 6th ("a few showers").

Sorry, AO. Maybe a little rain in March??

[gotbeer]

@Angel Oracle This weather is going to be great to hike in this weekend.

[Angel Oracle]

Believe me, I'm taking advantage of the weather this weekend.    Just hoping it isn't like this for the next two months every day

[Angel Oracle]

Andddd....nothing but 80s for the next 10 days

Things that will happen before normal rainfall occurs again in SoCal:   Buffalo wins the SC and Super Bore, Atlanta wins NBA title, Browns win Super Bore

 

[fan_since79]

Long-term forecasts also point to dry conditions for the next TWO MONTHS.

 

[Angel Oracle]

So much for the originally predicted rainfall for this week, looks like MAYBE several hundredths of an inch tops.    SMFH

[Mark68]

Roller coaster ride in Denver this winter. Case in point:

https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/Denver+CO+USCO0105:1:US

 

But...it's been dry.

http://www.weather.gov/bou/seasonalsnowfall

 

Like...really dry.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/02/08/la-nina-outlook-for-colorado/amp/

[fan_since79]

3 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

So much for the originally predicted rainfall for this week, looks like MAYBE several hundredths of an inch tops.    SMFH

Yeah, they're saying tomorrow...maybe.