If this weekend's rain, totaling less than two inches in wet Upper Ojai, is the "biggest storm of the season" according to the Los Angeles Times, then we have problems.
The prediction was for between one and three inches of rain. Hardly an awesome figure for a weekend.
To date in the mountains of Ventura County, we are at about 11 inches for the year — which is within range of normal, about 75%, but has yet to get the streams running, which is surely a better measure of ground water saturation. Usually by now the streams would have been running for at a month or two.
We're at nada.
To be fair, flatter areas and coastal areas (which attract more rain and less snow) are at about normal, which is good news. But the claim that a modest little Gulf of Alaska storm such as this one could end California's state drought…c'mon now. Stop dreaming.
Kit Stolz 