We’re having a dangerous weather day today. Hot, dry and windy. There’s a localized Santa Ana blowing in from the east as strong as I’ve seen it here since 2007. And that didn’t end well.

January here is normally cool and a bit wet. We should have received about 7.5 inches of rain so far, and we’ve only had 2, all in one storm back before Christmas.

Here’s our weather from the last week. This isn’t normal.

That was a look backward. Looking forward, it’s even worse.

I know a lot of people back east in cold and snowy weather would be happy for this, but too much of a good thing (heat, dry weather) causes big problems here. And I really miss the rain.