Still Warm and Sunny. Also,dry.

That sounds even worse than Glasgow and we are famous for our rain. This summer was terrible for us but September and October have been lovely. You just never know what to expect.

Yes,it IS bad. Take away the need etc, and you're chin after 5 weeks of measurable rain EVERY day just rests on the small (and high) windowsill in a funk. Watching rain trickle down the window..ugh.
Do you know that it went on ,if not as heavy until mid May..then it stopped and it seemed to be 80f everyday from that point. Like a switch.
This winter might be another "Once in 500 years" rainy season.

it's needed to replenish the reservoirs, right? I saw some pics of a reservoir that was almost dry...and remembered that last spring the snow fall in the mountains was way below the necessary level to maintain supply of ground water. We've had a very mild October..outside of four days early in the month which had below zero temps and snow squalls! very strange. hope things "normalize". this strong El Nino is supposed to dissipate by January, here in the East... with frigid temps, like last winter, following it. My fear is that we will lose all our snow cover and my poor perennials will be bare of cover when the serious cold starts... We had winter right into this past June and things took a long time to recover...no apples or tree nuts either. It's going to be a hungry winter for the deer and bears.

Locally Lori I read in the paper that Canada and Russia stood to gain the most from Global Warming. The farther south,the more GW starts to work against the climate.
Yes,on another board they have told me that in the eastcoast its not Dec or Jan cold as much as the February freezes as plants start spring growth..well,like you said.

I know,I did well this summer with drought. But another year is really going to ruin some of the best gardens in the bay area. Stressed plants will be upped by dead plants.

haven't heard anything on here for a while now from our friend in Alaska... things are changing there too and not for the better, so I heard. Hope you get your needed rain...perhaps you can find one of those headlamp thingys that they wear in Alaska to counteract the days of darkness. ;-) keep smilin'

Yeah- with a gaslamp? -wink. Off the grid...

82 yesterday Lori,now its clouded up and welling up for rain Monday. I hope.

Here I am in the tropics! It's a balmy day today...temps in the high teens C. our weather is just loony! It's November for heaven's sake! We have had our first snow (which stays on the ground) circa Nov. 17th for the last three years... wonder if things are going to change quickly?