Originally Posted by
big john
According to the NOAA temperatures were in the 60s and 70s all month last January in the area of Southern California where I live. We haven't had a major fire in a few years and I don't remember the last time we had a nasty storm. We are in a drought and it rarely rains.
Yup, but climatology is not weather. Right now it’s still chilly across the region and who knows what January will bring. Just because last January the weather WHERE YOU LIVE was one way, doesn’t mean that it’s going to be the same in a month, and it certainly won’t be the same for the areas I wrote about, as they are different climatological classifications as the LA foothills due to proximity to the Pacific.