be wet

“It’s our job to be wet ground, so that when a spark of political violence falls, it stops right there and it doesn’t initiate a conflagration — there’s no response to it,” he said.

“But the ground underneath has to be wet up to a certain level before it can flow past. That’s why you need a certain amount of rain and or intensity to get water to flow over the ground and into the river channels and through town.”

For the third straight weekend, it will be wet in Southern California.

“California and the southwest U.S. has far more variable annual precipitation than anywhere else in the country, and these atmospheric river storms are the primary storm type that determines whether it’s going to be wet or dry,” Ralph said.

“Extreme wet years usually require all wet season months to be wet,” he said.