I'll just ramble here...Drought update: last year rainfall totals for my city were 6.52 inches for the entire year. We just had 2.45 inches in 2 days!

It poured all day yesterday until 4am. Nice steady rain. I am so hopeful this trend continues. I've lost 3 beautiful shade trees and my other trees are very stressed. My neighbor is on well and it's bone dry. He's sharing city water with his neighbor via a garden hose.
Since Mon, our local mountain Big Bear has had more snowfall than it received all year last year! That is wonderful, as the entire forest is dying. The pine trees need the snow pack for a snow spring melt to soak in. Dead trees = wild fires.
In the Sierras, they are getting hammered with snow. That's what melts and fills the reservoirs that provide our water.

so far, this is the wettest Jan with the most snow since 2006! I sure hope the El Nino trend continues! Sorry that we're stealing all your snow and rain, but we really need it!