01-06-2026, 10:44 AM
I know that this thread has mostly focused on Northern California/Sierra Nevada, but Santa Barbara County--where I've lived since 2000--reports that the county has already exceeded its "normal water-year" rainfall:
https://files.countyofsb.org/pwd/hydrolo...report.pdf
https://files.countyofsb.org/pwd/hydrolo...report.pdf
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)
