This year’s intense and constant rain has lead to multiple firsts for California. 2019 was the first year that Los Angeles went an entire February without reaching a temperature at or above 70 degrees. “There has never been a February since records began in … 1877, during which the temperature has failed to reach the 70 degree mark,” wrote the National Weather Service in Oxnard, Calif., in a public information statement. This year marks the “first February in 141 Februaries without a high temperature of at least 70 degrees.”(Washington Post) On average

February hits 70 degrees six times a month, this year it was zero. Along with not reaching above 70 degrees, February was also California’s coldest month since 1962 by five degrees. The past Los Angles Februarys’ have had an average high of 65 and this year there were only three days that were as warm as a normal February day in LA. Senior Katie Langley says she, “Can’t remember a time where it has been this cold and rainy. I feel like it rains at least once and week and I always have to bring a jacket with me when I leave the house, something I don’t usually have to do living in California. I do think the rain is doing great things for California and the state is benefiting greatly from all the rain.” Another first as a result of the rain is when CdM canceled school for half a day because the campus was flooding from an excess of rain. That was the first time in CdM history that school has been canceled from extreme weather conditions. The rain has not let up and is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.