Dear WeatherCat drought watchers,
Since California uses a July 1 to June 30 calendar to record rainfall, today is the last day of the 2014-2015 rainy season. Therefore here is the final graph of that season:
By June standards, it was a above normal month for rainfall. The 0.25" of rain received on June 10th was almost double the normal of 0.15". Alas, in the overall year, it was nothing more than a drop in the bucket and hardly met the water needs for the month. For comparison, the Penman?Monteith estimate of grass evapotranspiration for the month of June is over 4.6 inches already and the day isn't over.
Still the additional rainfall created one modest correction to the 2014-25 statistics. It was sufficient to raise the percentage of normal rainfall at Canebas weather station from 68% to 69%.
So far there hasn't been any additional rainfall from the monsoons. Rain is falling in southern California and monsoonal moisture is reaching northern California, but in insufficient quantities to bring any rainfall. The missing ingredient appears to be hurricane activity in the eastern Pacific. After 3 hurricanes in short order, none have been formed since. So dry northern California continues to hope for rain . . . .
Oh well, . . . Edouard . .