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Rain Rain Go Away
updated: Aug 03, 2012, 4:49 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

It's raining at Foothill and Cieneguitas at 4:39 pm on Friday! What is up with this crazy weather?

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COMMENT 304501	2012-08-03 04:53 PM
Dark, cold, raining and windy in Carp!
COMMENT 304502	2012-08-03 04:54 PM
Was raining in Noleta, but not anymore.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-03 04:57 PM
It's not rainning here.
COMMENT 304507P	2012-08-03 05:01 PM
It's sprinkling at my house near DPHS. A friend who lives in Ventura said she was at the harbor there and had to leave because of a thunderstorm!
COMMENT 304508	2012-08-03 05:05 PM
I first moved to Santa Barbara some 30 years ago in August. I remember my landlord saying, "It's raining today, hmm, we're more like Hawai'i every year."
COMMENT 304509P	2012-08-03 05:05 PM
Earthquake weather...
COMMENT 304513P	2012-08-03 05:10 PM
Love it!
COMMENT 304516	2012-08-03 05:13 PM
There's nothing unusual about this. This type of summer system - often linked to the monsoon - with mid atmosphere instability resulting in local showers and the odd thunderstorm happens at least once in most summers. We had another system like this only a few weeks ago, except that one was from the residual moisture left over from an Eastern Pacific tropical system, well to the south.
COMMENT 304517	2012-08-03 05:14 PM
I looked at the radar image and the cloud pattern (I'm no meteorologist but...) looks totally weird. There are denser cells but still really lightly scattered to the north of us and much less dense cells passing us by and in LA, but almost no rain cells over the ocean. This makes me wonder: is this the kind of pattern that cloud seeding produces? The radar image I saw didn't show the whole Pacific Ocean to get perspective on a tropical storm. Any ideas?
COMMENT 304526	2012-08-03 05:43 PM
Only unusual because there was nothing on the news wether forecast....and I feel like it can be any kind of weather and someone says "earthquake weather".
COMMENT 304534	2012-08-03 05:52 PM
Best Fiesta weather ever!
COMMENT 304537	2012-08-03 06:00 PM
We had a full on thunderstorm in the late '80's on Sunday evening after Fiesta. People just forget or they weren't here.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-03 06:10 PM
I forgot.
COMMENT 304544P	2012-08-03 06:16 PM
When we moved here 38 years ago in August I had a piano sitting outside on the patio. My neighbor, a CA native, said don't worry, it never rains here in August. Well, at 3 in the morning my husband and I were shoving a piano into the house, because it was raining :-). Does anyone remember the movie Cutter and Bone? We all laughed because they portrayed the fiesta parade in the rain.
COMMENT 304547	2012-08-03 06:26 PM
Weather monkeys.
COMMENT 304548	2012-08-03 06:31 PM
4526.... actually this morning's news report (KEYT) said there would a chance of showers and sprinkles in odd places. You must have missed it. It's a narrow monsoonal flow from the south west.... more like hurricane weather.
COMMENT 304552	2012-08-03 06:36 PM
I remember some great lightning storms back in the early 90s.
COMMENT 304553	2012-08-03 06:42 PM
517, today's rain event is pretty local to this part of S. California. Also, there are no current tropical systems in the Pacific basin. The radar images are a little deceptive - the cloud base is somewhat high (over 10,000ft), much of what doppler is showing is not reaching the ground on account of evaporation. Re. cloud seeding - that program was experimental in the 1960s and AFAIK there is no current program involving cloud seeding. The results of those experiments were inconclusive/ambiguous, in that sometimes clouds and rain were produced, and other times, nothing happened.
COMMENT 304555P	2012-08-03 06:51 PM
Does anyone remember the weather and the events leading up to Sunday August 13, 1978?
COMMENT 304559	2012-08-03 07:13 PM
@516 wrong! RE: Cloud seeding - there's an undated PDF document if you google "California cloud seeding" that details Santa Barbara's cloud seeding program up to 2005 authored by North American Weather Consultants. Also, Chapter 14 of California's 2005 Water Plan is called "Precipitation Enhancement" ("aka 'cloud seeding'") and also shows a map of the areas where "precipitation enhancement" was ongoing at that time, that includes Santa Barbara County (and Sierra Nevada counties, but no other coastal counties other than SB???). So, yes, we have cloud seeding in SB County and the state-produced information on it is extremely easy to find if anyone cares to look for it.
COMMENT 304565P	2012-08-03 08:02 PM
@555: What happened on Aug. 13, 1978?
COMMENT 304566	2012-08-03 08:02 PM
Lots of thunder and lightning in Filmore today
COMMENT 304567	2012-08-03 08:11 PM
@517, I stand corrected - thanks for the heads up on the NAWC program. Interesting read.
COMMENT 304568	2012-08-03 08:13 PM
Aug. 13, 1978 was the earthquake that really shook Goleta (5.5?). I don't remember it because I was on a family vacation at the time out of state.
COMMENT 304595P	2012-08-03 11:42 PM
I know Aug. 13, '78. My first job. I think I woulda been outside the building FAST, but if not, hardware (screws, nuts and bolts in a large metal cabinet) would've fallen on me or at least my desk. I don't believe in earthquake weather. I got the 10-20 drops in July; today the pavement almost got wet! I stood in it. I LOVE rain. The lighting of the patchy clouds during twilight and before moonrise was stunningly beautiful.
COMMENT 304596P	2012-08-03 11:52 PM
Whoops, meant to add this: DATE: AUG 13 ORIGIN TIME: 22:54:53.5 GEOGRAPHIC: 34.35 N 119.70 W DEPTH: 7 MAGNITUDE 5.7 5.5mb(GS) 5.6MS(GS) 5.7ML(BRK) 5.1ML(PAS) 12 to 15 million dollars damage in Santa Barbara-Goleta area. Maximum intensity VII in Santa Barbara County. Also felt in San Luis Obispo, Kern, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1978.php Huh. This says it was sunny. ;-) "Then, on August 13, 1978, on a sunny Sunday afternoon..." http://projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/sb_eqs/1978/1978.html I can't remember what I was doing when it happened. But work was hell after it.
COMMENT 304598P	2012-08-03 11:59 PM
Uh oh. I'm job hunting. The first day of my last job was December 22, 2003. Look out! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_San_Simeon_earthquake
JOHN WILEY	2012-08-04 02:17 AM
Stopped at OSH just before dinner for an item, and when we walked out there was that unique smell of Summer rain. The ground was wet, but it had already dwindled to a few drops. Some really interesting clouds too. SoCA Summer. :)
NANCYSBL	2012-08-04 06:37 AM
It was sunny and warm on that August day. But it had been still all day - few birds, my dog was acting skitchy and hiding (very unusual). Yesterdays rain was definitely not EQ weather.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-04 07:06 AM
@95P A close friend of mine had died just before that Earthquake and I hadn't found out about it till a few days later. I remember that earthquake because somehow I twisted my knee during the darn thing and couldn't walk for days afterward.
ARCHIE	2012-08-04 07:53 AM
another brief shower on the mesa- plants happy.
COMMENT 304657P	2012-08-04 08:53 AM
I was in the walk in fridge at Bonanza Sirloin Pit working to stock the salad bar when the earthquake hit- I remember buckets of cherry tomatoes sloshing around! There were crickets everywhere (not just in the restaurant) a week or more before the quake...
COMMENT 304663	2012-08-04 09:11 AM
Third shower here in Goleta this morning. Each just a few minutes long, unless this one breaks the record.
SBJULES	2012-08-04 09:24 AM
It was predicted & today the weather channel says Expect occasional rain to end Saturday at 11a.m.
COMMENT 304673	2012-08-04 09:29 AM
304517 - Absolutely NOT cloud seeding. Simply the result of the monsoonal flow which is very common this time of year. That it happens on Fiesta weekend is coincidental. In my 17 years here this is the first time I can recall it raining during Fiesta.
COMMENT 304804	2012-08-04 03:22 PM
It did? I live there, well. must open windows more . .

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