Even the weather is different here ...
8:25am PDT, 63 degrees
Day 2 officially begins.

I just woke up and checked the Weather Channel's website. Tonight's forecast has the first real rain for the Los Angeles area in months! Check out parts of the weather advisory:

... FIRST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL OF THE SEASON EXPECTED FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...

RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN ACROSS MOST COASTAL AREAS SATURDAY NIGHT... SPREADING INLAND THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. PRELIMINARY RAINFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE BETWEEN ONE TENTH AND ONE HALF INCH ACROSS COASTAL AND VALLEY AREAS... WHILE FOOTHILL AND MOUNTAIN AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE BETWEEN ONE HALF AND ONE INCH.

THE LAST TIME MEASURABLE RAINFALL OCCURRED AT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES WAS APRIL 18TH... WHEN (.01) INCHES WAS RECORDED. AS A RESULT... THE 181 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF NO RAINFALL AT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES WILL LIKELY COME TO AN END. THIS WOULD BE THE SIXTH LONGEST TIME PERIOD OF CONSECUTIVE DRY DAYS DATING BACK TO 1921. FOR MORE SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES... ONE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO MARCH 2ND... WHEN (.27) INCHES OF RAIN WAS RECORDED.

SINCE THIS WILL BE THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL OF THE SEASON... ROADS WILL BE VERY SLICK. MOTORISTS SHOULD REDUCE SPEED AND USE EXTRA CAUTION ON WET ROADS. THE RAIN COULD ALSO CAUSE SOME DEBRIS FLOW OR MUD SLIDES IN RECENTLY BURNED AREAS.

That's a long time without rain. I drive carefully as a rule, but I'm thinking that I'm going to drive with a little more caution than usual. We're used to seeing rain a few times a month, but less than a half inch of measurable rain from March to October is amazing.