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Since July 1 of this year, Southwestern Los Angeles County has received about 0.90 inches of precipitation. Last year, a record-setting wettest season since they started measuring rainfall, we had only 0.68 inches. What does this mean? Another record-setting season?<\/p>\n
Not according to Ken Clark<\/strong>, meteorologist for AccuWeather.com<\/a>. Clark, in an article in the “I wouldn’t say we’d get as much rain as last year, which was one for the record books and the chances of equaling that are pretty small,” he said. Last “rain year” — July 2004 through June 2005 — saw about 37.25 inches of rain, making it the second wettest in history.<\/p>\n “But it sure looks like there is going to be more rainfall than we normally get in Southern California.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, our local mainstream media outlets maintain that due to the fires and this rainfall, we will have mudslides and land erosion – we’re dooooomed. (Yawn)<\/p>\n Photo credit: Sean Hiller \/ Daily Breeze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since July 1 of this year, Southwestern Los Angeles County has received about 0.90 inches of precipitation. Last year, a record-setting wettest season since they started measuring rainfall, we had only 0.68 inches. What does this mean? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDaily Breeze<\/a>, said he forecasts heavy, moisture-laden storms this winter:<\/p>\n