
The weather has been pretty nice for a week or so, but we again will have a series of rain over the coming weekend. In January and February, the weather has been pretty nasty. It is not always a perfect weather even in Southern California. Funny thing is that people around here say a storm is coming to mean that it will be rainy over a couple of days. A couple rainy days mean only a quarter inch of precipitation, but still it qualifies as a storm. When we used to live in Indiana, we had ice storms once in a while. I remember those beautifully transparent icy formation on tree branches and power lines. When we used to live in Virginia, we had snow storms. Kids were so excited running around in the snow in the yard. Here in California, it's rain storms. Well, if you looked up the word "storm" in dictionary, it is defined as "an atmospheric disturbance manifested in strong winds accompanied by rain, snow, or other precipitation and often by thunder and lightning." So as long as there is an atmospheric disturbance with some wind and rain, could it pass as a storm? Everything is relative, I guess. It just depends on what you are used to.