Seventy PerCent Chance?

Rain?  From These Clouds?

The forecast was for a 70 per cent chance of rain today, but I'm not thinking that looks very likely.

Actually, in San Diego, that kind of prediction just means that IF you wash your car, AND wash all your windows, it might sprinkle enough to get them all spotted up again.

Recently, one of my favorite groups, The Irish Cloud Appreciation Society, posted a link to a wonderful article about the eleven different levels of Irish rain:  http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/irish-rain-scale-1275040-Jan2014/.

When we do get some rain, it only goes up to Level 3, "wetting rain", on the Irish Rain Scale, although the local San Diego television weather people start talking about the current "storm".  We certainly never get up to Level 7, "bucketing", let alone "pelting" or "lashing" rain; we wouldn't know what to do in that much rain.

Let's hope we get some rain from this "storm" anyway, because we really do need it.