Anaheim, CA, USA

[tozka]

A gloomy morning for the first Daylight Savings Day; it's California cold at 54* and overcast. The air smells a little like it might rain, but I think that's just because the humidity is at 82%. Luckily, the weather app says it should get sunnier and slightly warmer (a whole 67*) after 11:00 am!

Official Drought, Auckland, NZ

[mific]

Too much of a good thing. Still warm and hardly any rain, just a couple of brief, light showers, and we're in an officially declared "severe drought". My local reservoir, the Nihotupu dam, is really low. Usually the water's right at the lip of the concrete spillway and cascading down, but it's well below the spillway lip now. I've seen it a little worse, about 20 years ago in a massive heatwave and drought during an El Nino, but we haven't had a dry patch like this since then, that I can recall. The grassy stuff on the right is reeds, but on the left that's grass, showing how long it's been dry.
How's it going for you guys in the chillier parts of the world? Hope the iguanas are holding on okay.

 

( pics here )