The Warm Dry 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 rains end between mid May to June. Sometimes there is a transition period between seasons but this year, 2003, there was not. One day in June it was still cool and wet; on the next it was hot and dry. Things dry up rapidly, the native plants go dormant or into drought mode and non-natives that haven't adapted need to be watered. FireSeason begins.

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 - 01 Dec 2008

More on the weather at CampAugustine and NorCalWeather

-- FloydPerryThistle - 23 Aug 2003
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