...again.

They've been forecasting rain for the weekend pretty much all week. Sure enough, the weekend has arrived, it's sunny and warm, and there's nobody here because everyone believed the forecast and made other plans for the weekend. So if you're one of the skeptical ones who don't believe the forecast, and you came up for the weekend despite the predictions of rain, you've got near-perfect conditions, and the whole place to yourself. Good on ya

Finally, finally, finally... It's sunny, and warm, and breezy, and everything is dry or soon will be, and people are already complaining about the heat. Perfect.

Get out of the house and go do something, anything. Just make sure you take lots of water with you, and maybe bathe in sunscreen before you head out.

Especially today. The marine air has reasserted itself, so it clouded over last night, and we had a couple of brief rain showers come through around sunrise. But since then it's been dry with a light breeze, so things are steadily drying off. With any luck we won't see any more precip and it'll turn out to be a good day, but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. You should probably be prepared for another shower or two, although they will probably be over quickly if they happen at all.

We've got a layer of that "marine air" stuff hanging above us this morning, so there's a lot of cloud cover, but blue patches are showing through, and the temperature is actually quite warm. It looks like it will be a good day for just about anything that doesn't require direct, hot sunshine.

Well, that took longer than we would have liked. But it looks like summer is finally here - warm, sunny, a bit of a wind drying everything out - it's your basic beautiful day in Paradise. And the forecast looks pretty good for the next week or two, as well.

So put away the sweaters and the umbrellas, dust of your Chacos, and get out there.

It rained overnight, and the sidewalks are still damp, but so far the clouds are just threatening more rain, not actually delivering it. It definitely isn't the day to tackle some long, committing route on the Chief, but a day of cragging in the Bluffs probably isn't out of the question.