Poll Results -- California Precipitation

Hey! There's a new poll on the right (vote for the kids!). Here are the results from last week's poll:

California's Winter Will Be? Selection Votes Drier than Usual 70% 26 Average 16% 6 Wetter than Usual 14% 5 37 votes total

Looks like most people are expecting a dry winter. I wonder if Mayor Sanders ("we don't need to reduce our water consumption now if we get rain this winter.") is listening...

And in an update in the Sept 10-17 poll, this report says that there have been 10 hurricanes to date. Experts predict that we may have 18 by Nov 30 -- the "end" of the Atlantic hurricane season.

Wow -- I said there were four at the start of the poll, I missed something. According to wikipedia, ten had been named by Sept 10. If I recalibrate your answers around 10 as start (instead of 4), that means that 23% of you said 10-13, 49% said 14-17, 23% said 18-21, and 5% said 22+ named storms. Wait and see...

Bottom Line: Looking into the future is much better when you do it with others: If you're right, you take credit; if you're wrong, you blame them :)