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Rain's starting.

16 years ago

We are supposed to have a week of rain here in California. Several storms have lined up out in the Pacific and will come ashore all week, giving us what forecasters say will be a bigger total storm rainfall than we have had in over 10 years. They predicted 4 feet of snow for the mountains before they upped the expectations for the first storm coming in tonight and tomorrow. We'll see if they predicted accurately.

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alisande
16 years ago
We have rain, too, but it's freezing--a real ice storm. It's supposed to change to snow later, leaving us around 7". Love my woodstove.....
socks
16 years ago
It's a blessing from above, that's for sure. Hope we don't have too many mudslides.
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glenda_al
16 years ago
Big warmup here. Gonna be int he 60's most part of the week. Then rain for the weekend. I'll be hitting the sun and skipping the rain, yea!
sjerin
16 years ago
I thought it would be here (SF Bay Area) by this morning but so far we've only had a smattering. We shall see!
golfergrrl
16 years ago
We certainly need some rain.
No golf this week, sigh.
I'm going bowling, though. Went last week when it rained. Haven't bowled in 20 years. The holes in my bowling ball have shrunk.
susanjf_gw
16 years ago
no rain for us..it went south and east of us...but with day temps in the 30's i'm happy...

hope you don't get the mud slides, sheliajoyce...our last house was in santee, ca (burb of san diego) and we had a hill for a backyard...always thought we were very lucky no fires close, or slides...
carol_in_california
16 years ago
It started here on the central coast about noon....nice gentle rain all day.
I am glad we are getting the rain and hope it doesn't cause a lot of mudslides in the burn areas.

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