Great reminders Kevin. It's storming like crazy in the mountains right now and as our friend Dennis Mattison has said there's a series of storms in the forecast for this week.
Since it is a slow day and there is time I thought I'd take issue with your terminology of "good" and "bad", the latter term you used twice in the first sentence.
I don't tend to look at weather as necessarily "good" or "bad". What is bad to one person might be great for someone else. The truth of the matter is California can use the storms and the water that it brings.
It's like when people look at a route such as the U Notch Couloir and ask if conditions are "good" or not. In September the route is hard ice. For some that would be "bad" because they want to kick steps into snow. For others the conditions are "good" because they want to do a multi pitch ice climb. What is bad to one person is good for another.
So rather than call the weather "bad" I'll just describe it as "stormy" and not favorable for climbing at the moment (or driving for that matter). After the storm clears I'll describe the weather using various terms such as "clear", "bluebird", or one of many other adjectives that could be placed here.
But, maybe others wouldn't agree and they'd call all this stormy weather "bad".
