Here in middle California where drought, mostly brought about by the politics of unlimited immigration, short-sighted population growth and the Sierra Club, is a real threat, we have finally had some welcome rain.
It will take a record El Nino to replenish the water table and this storm was not it, or even the beginning of it. Nevertheless it has been instructive, for the weather experts predicted only a few short showers, and instead some 8 hours of heavy rain arrived. If they cannot accurately predict two days ahead, why should we believe their predictions of catastrophe 30 years down the road?