The Cool Wet Season

In this part of the world, on the West coast of North America, we have just two seasons, the warm dry season and the cool wet season. The cool wet season begins between mid October and January. As soon as the rains come, the native plants begin to sprout and grow. Green grass appears and the landscape takes on a soft "Spring"-like air. The rains taper off in April and May. Sometimes there is a transition period between the CoolWetSeason and the WarmDrySeason, but this year there was not. One day in June it was still cool and wet; on the next it was hot and dry.

A short informative paper, California Climates by Joel Michaelsen, can be found at:

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/g148_f01/reader/cal_climate.html

A chart; Nevada City, California Calendar Year Precipitation in Millimeters from 1863 to 1995:

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/weather/cdf/text/nevada_city_precip.txt

A chart; CampAugustine Daily CampRainRecord, with monthly totals, from 01 August 2003 - 04 Dec 2008

More on the weather at CampAugustine and NorCalWeather

-- FloydPerryThistle - 02 Dec 2003
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