{"id":1996,"date":"2007-07-18T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/18\/okay-i-was-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:04","slug":"okay-i-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/18\/okay-i-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, I Was Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/07\/03\/the-produce-basket-of-the-us\/\">I wrote that it never rains<\/a> in the summer here? I ought to know better than to use an absolute. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_6403710?nclick_check=1\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In more than 70 years of record-keeping, it has never rained in San Jose on July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Expect that streak to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Rain did fall as far south as Mountain View this morning.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco made weather history today by recording one-hundredth of an inch of rain, the storm system &#8220;is weakening rapidly&#8221; and will exit in the late morning hours, according to Dan Gudgel, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s opportunity may have passed,&#8221; Gudgel said of San Jose&#8217;s chance for rain.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the cold front will leave unseasonably cool temperatures around the South Bay, Gudgel said. San Jose is expected to have a high of 74 degrees today &#8212; about 10 degrees below normal &#8212; with southwest winds at 10 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight lows are expected to drop to 56.<\/p>\n<p>Gudgel said the downtown climate station in San Francisco recorded a measurable amount of rain &#8212; at least one-hundredth of an inch &#8212; for the first time on this date in more than 150 years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It <em>is<\/em> raining here in Santa Clara, very lightly. And last week, we did have an odd sprinkle in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>So I will amend my statement: it rarely rains here during the summer, although the rain we do get is a pittance compared to what we need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember I wrote that it never rains in the summer here? I ought to know better than to use an absolute. From the San Jose Mercury News: In more than 70 years of record-keeping, it has never rained in San Jose on July 18. Expect that streak to keep going. Rain did fall as far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-quotes","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}