{"id":1793,"date":"2021-10-20T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:16:12","slug":"environment-light-rain-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/10\/20\/environment-light-rain-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment: Light Rain in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitter is mildly amusing at the moment, as many SF Bay Area people are wildly excited over the actuality of water falling from the sky.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unfamiliar pitter-pat sounds on windows.  The smell of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrichor\">petrichor<\/a>.  They are posting absurdly mundane videos celebrating droplets on windshields! Here in California, where fires in the mountains have burned for MONTHS, rain is a big deal.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Water!  FROM THE SKY!   \ud83d\ude04<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A series of weather system will bring periods of light to moderate rainfall \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BayArea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayArea<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CentralCoast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CentralCoast<\/a> through Friday. A more potent atmospheric river then takes aim on the region late in the weekend with widespread rainfall and gusty winds. Stay tuned!\u26a0\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CAwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BayAreaWX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BayAreaWX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/usmXHUzWfk\">pic.twitter.com\/usmXHUzWfk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSBayArea\/status\/1450800366941990912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We&#8217;d really like Wildfire Season to END<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been an <strong>agonizingly dry<\/strong> year.  We only got about 30% of our hoped-for water from October of last year through September of this year.  We&#8217;d really like to do better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the <a href=\"https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/data\/pdf\/current\/current_ca_trd.pdf\">US Drought Monitor for California<\/a> looks like (brace yourself, it&#8217;s bad):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-20-CA-Drought-Monitor-1024x793.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-20-CA-Drought-Monitor-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-20-CA-Drought-Monitor-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-20-CA-Drought-Monitor-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-20-CA-Drought-Monitor-1536x1190.png 1536w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/2021-10-20-CA-Drought-Monitor.png 1990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption><em>This image is available as a pdf at https:\/\/droughtmonitor.unl.edu\/data\/pdf\/current\/current_ca_trd.pdf <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If monthly numerical tables are more of your thing, here is NOAA&#8217;s data from our sad water year:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-template-default wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnrfc.noaa.gov\/monthly_precip.php\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Monthly Precipitation Summary\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-image-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-image\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnrfc.noaa.gov\/images\/header.png\" style=\"max-width: 700px; max-height: 700px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-text-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-title\">\n\t\t\tMonthly Precipitation Summary\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-summary\">\n\t\t\tCalifornia Nevada River Forecast Center &#8211; Your government source of hydrologic\/weather data and forecasts for California, Nevada, and portions of southern Oregon\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know people in the SF Bay Area or California generally, be prepared for their\/our delight over a basic weather phenomenon that may be ordinary for you, but which feels like an incredible gift for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is mildly amusing at the moment, as many SF Bay Area people are wildly excited over the actuality of water falling from the sky. The unfamiliar pitter-pat sounds on windows. The smell of petrichor. They are posting absurdly mundane videos celebrating droplets on windshields! Here in California, where fires in the mountains have burned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2021\/10\/20\/environment-light-rain-in-san-francisco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Environment: Light Rain in San Francisco&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-drought"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}