The weather starts

Last Sunday it rained. It rained more than the forecasters expected and I was impressed. This afternoon it rained a tad, just bits and pieces off and on. There are two more storms across the Pacific headed our way with Sunday being the real one.

Northern California has a true rainy season. Last year it extended itself all the way to the last week in May and now it's starting up again. More typically it rains from November to early May. Or maybe December through April, something like that. But it doesn't rain all year the way I remember rain growing up in Illinois.

Call me perverted, but I love the rainy season. I like weather that does something, that gets involved with itself and enters our conversations. The rainy season becomes a member of the community, an entity to plan around and take into consideration when leaving home. Or making back-up plans just in case. It no longer sits there as it does in the sameness of the summer and early fall when it's just the weather, and even the newscasters get bored with the monotony of predicting the same temperature range for months on end. But now, now there's a little tumult and it becomes a guessing game.

I am so very happy!