Hazy-bright sunshine the early Thursday on California’s north coast — supposedly more rain due tomorrow evening, and maybe on into the weekend.
Mostly light drizzle expected, though, the NWS calling for a ‘slight chance’ of rain Friday night. No atmospheric river to be flowing forth.

Apparently, the only thing flowing forth is warmth — figures released yesterday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show 2015 is already California’s hottest year on record (via Climate Central): ‘“2015 to date has been truly astonishingly warm in California, and we’re breaking almost all the temperature records there are to break,” Daniel Swain, an atmospheric science PhD student at Stanford University, said in an email.’

(Illustration found here).

According to the digits, the January-March temperatures topped 2014’s record by a solid 1.8 degrees, which don’t bode well for the rest of the year, to say the least. Climate change isn’t slowing down, or whatever. Continuing per Climate Central:

The continued back-to-back records — California also saw its hottest winter last year and then again this year — speak to the unusual situation the state is in.
“We’re shattering temperature records here in California consecutively now year upon year, which is really amazing from a statistical and climatological perspective,” Swain said.
Part of this is due to a stubborn weather pattern that has been in place over several winters, and that some scientists, including Swain, have tentatively linked to climate change.
The pattern has locked in a high pressure ridge over the western U.S., sending temperatures soaring and blocking much needed storms.
But like the globe as a whole, California has also seen a steady rise in temperatures over recent decades due to the heat-trapping effects of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere.
The buildup of those gases has effectively weighted the climate dice toward more heat records and fewer cold ones, including at the state level.
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“It’s going to be a long summer, that’s for sure,” Swain said.

Maybe length and time depend on heat, rising temperatures creating intense dramatic interludes, “The Long, Hot Summer,” minus the “You are barking up the wrong girl, Mr. Quick.”
Or words not at all to that effect…