WOW!  Just barely into August ’n cloudy skies like I’ve not seen before, well, at least here in norCal at this time of year….common, of course, in the rainy season…

I’ve seen rain in August before…in 1962, I think, it rained for about 30 minutes or so ’n back in or around 1970, it rained pretty good one July day….

I wudn’t home for that one, I was in the mountains with a station wagon full of people looking for a dry place to eat lunch c’uz it wuz rainin’ in the mountains…

I had a TR3 at that time, parked in front of the house with the top off…(top got so ratty I just took it off ’n threw it away but, that’s another story)…found several inches of water inside but I just took out the rubber grommets 'n, Voila, water away...

Summer rains in the central valley of California happen but you c’n durn near count the drops as they fall, even while wearing sunglasses…

Yest’iday, me ’n da boyz walked in the rain during our evening walk ’n none of us actually got wet…you c’n do that in a norCal rain…

Heck, you c’n darn near do that during our rainy season…I’ve often walked to the mailbox ’n back during one of our winter rains sans jacket or bumbershoot ’n the only thing I’ve had t’do is wipe off my specs…

What I’m saying, of course, is that when I came to California midway through the last century, I learned a new word…Virga: a mass of streaks of rain appearing to hang under a cloud and evaporating before reaching the ground.  And virga is what a lot of our winter rains is…’course, if we ain’t in a drought mode, we c’n get that kind of rain for a couple months at a time…gets downright wearisome at times….

Aniyhow, these cloudy skies ’n cooler temps are a welcome relief, albeit temporary c’uz the sun’ll come back with a vengeance, prob’ly by the end of the week….