canyonwalker | I'm Done with Winter - But It Hasn't Started Yet!

I caught myself thinking a few days ago, "I'm done with winter." I'm done with the dark mornings, with it being dark again at 5pm, and with the cool weather. I'm ready for it to be sunny and warm again. I'm ready to be able to enjoy the outdoors again. But here's the thing... winter hasn't even started yet. 😨

The official start of winter isn't for another few days, on December 21. And even the practical start of winter isn't here yet.

By practical I'm referring to the rainy, dreary aspect of winter. The climate in this part of the world is such that virtually all of our rainfall for the year falls between November and March. Some years the rainy season starts in early November, some years in late November. This year it's already mid-December and the rains haven't started. So as ready as I am to be done with winter, the winter weather pattern of gray skies and rain every day hasn't even started yet.

...Speaking of gray skies and rain every day, it looks like it just started today. As of yesterday the forecast for today was nice-ish, but this morning it's been gray and drizzling, and the forecast for the next several days shows more of the same.