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thistlechaser ([personal profile] thistlechaser) wrote2011-12-27 10:01 pm
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*flails around blindly*

Winter is supposed to be our rainy season. We go nine months or so without a drop of rain, then the three months over winter we get our rain, usually a couple storms and some drizzle.

This year it's rained once. (And not even a storm, light rain.)

Forget about the poor plants and grasses, forget our impending shortage of water to drink and wash our cars and water those poor plants, the air is so horrible!

I had to take my contacts out at 6 PM today, they were just so dry and miserable I couldn't see. I HATE having to use my glasses, I feel like I have blinders on all around my eyes (which makes sense, since outside of the frames there's no prescription coverage).

I sound like a darned worgen, too. *SNORT*SNIFFLE*SNORT* My poor sinuses! Ow ow ow.

I'm starting to consider doing a rain dance.

[identity profile] voidmagus.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Crazy people living in the desert. Makes no damn sense, I tell ya.

[identity profile] pure-trance.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
We don't live in the desert that's SoCal :0 At least I don't think we do?

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not like there's sand around, but based on rainfall, maybe?

It sure feels like it currently!

[identity profile] pure-trance.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, we are really close to the bay and marshlands (shoreline area etc.)..

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, good point...

Edit: Let's see what Google says!

There are two types of desert. One is hot and dry, and the other is cold and even Arctic. They have very dissimilar climates and different types of plants and animals live in them(though generally not a very wide variety). These two distinct types do have one thing in common, however: they both receive less than 10 centimeters of precipitation per year. Such a scarcity of rainfall is all it takes for a desert to be a desert.

I'm pretty sure we get a lot more than that, even this year?
Edited 2011-12-28 21:00 (UTC)

[identity profile] pure-trance.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah I think earlier in the year we got a lot of rain, more than we had in the past. Anyway I am pretty sure we get more than 10cm.

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hrm. If my math is right, 10cm is 4 inches. We're below that for sure this year. I think that one "storm" we got was below a quarter inch. Maybe there's some year requirement as well, like you have to get less than 10cm in most every year.

[identity profile] pure-trance.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting, I thought we got a lot of rain this year, earlier on. Unless that was last year.

But yeah, it must be something like that...I mean you can't live in a desert one year, but not most of the time. It's probably an average.

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
You're right, it must be an average. And yeah, last year we got more than 200% of our usual rain. Hopefully it'll hold us over.

[identity profile] pure-trance.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I don't really know how to read this, but if you can make more sense of it:

http://www.valleywater.org/Services/MeasuresAndReadings.aspx

[identity profile] thistle-chaser.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... no snow! So it's half-win? Who needs to drink, anyway! I'll absorb all my water from, um, the sun!