The year started off off cooler-than-average. Then, two weeks in, a big four-to-five day warm up came with record-breaking 80s and 90s for highs.
Through it all, though, SoCal hasn't received a single one drop of rain - and that's becoming a big problem.
If it seems like it's been unusually dry, it's because it has been unusually dry. We've only had two notable storms, one on November 7-8 and a second storm just days after the start of winter on December 27-28.
January has been very dry, except on January 19-20th, when a few hundredths to a little over a tenth of an inch of rain fell in the Coachella Valley and San Bernardino County mountains.
Keep our fingers crossed for rain! More widespread rain is in the forecast for the last week of January.
January and February are usually our wettest months. For January of 2020, much of the month was dry as well with only .32" of rain.
And it was even drier in February with only .04" of rain throughout the month.
The good news last year is we made up for it in March and April, with downtown LA and other cities receiving more than three inches of rain in March and four inches in April.
Could we see the same pattern this year? It's possible we may get some spring showers, but it remains to be seen just how much.
It doesn't look promising, though, if we look at the Climate Prediction Center's outlook for February, March and April. If the forecast holds, we may be in for a dry start to spring as well.
January 22, 2021 at 12:10AM
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/weather/2021/01/21/dry-january-for-much-of-socal-
January Rainfall Well Below Normal, Dry Spell Continues - Spectrum News 1
https://news.google.com/search?q=dry&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
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