Your first example was the rainy season of the 2004-2005 El Nino.... the rain was prodigious but came evenly spaced out so there were few if any memorable rain events..... the perfect rainy season!
Your second example was in December 1999.... I have the Alan Simmons video of it!
Kimmer
Yet even the "March Miracle" fit the pattern you describe, just that
"Jan-Mar" meant "Mar" that year.
We had the year where we nearly broke the all-time seasonal rainfall record
for downtown LA, but I don't remember which year or how that rainfall was
distributed across the calendar.
I also remember the year that there was a major brush fire in the hills
above Arcadia (LA Co, S edge of ANF) the week after Christmas, because we
had as yet had no rain. The next week we got rain, and Arcadia got serious
mudflow problems from the freshly-denuded hills. That year we got, IIRC,
near-average rainfall, starting in January.
It would be interesting to track down the records and see what the common
patterns are, and what they relate to. (However, not interesting enough that
I'll ever get around to it.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Noyes" <kimnoyes@gmail.com>
To: <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com>Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Re: Pineapple Express Headed To
California
I have noted in recent years that when we get off to a strong start
rain-wise we tend to fizzle down the stretch no matter how promising the
start. What determines our having a good year or at least an average year
has little to do with October-December and everything to do with
January-March..... with the rare exception of cases like 1991's March
Miracle where it all happened inside a few weeks relatively late in the
season.
Kimmer
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