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A Hard San Francisco Rain Can Pelt

Despite what I and many others
before me have so confidently
said (Frank O’Hara: “There is no
rain in California”; Del Ray Cross

during a very mild drizzle, has often
described such as “a hard San
Francisco rain.”), one might assert in
truth that there is a broader variety in 

our weather patterns of late – is it our
imaginations or is it so-called global
warming or the climate crisis? – plus,
having lived here for over twenty-five

years, I do not think I am simply imagin

ing a return to the weather patterns that
generally existed upon my arrival to
this city in which one acquires a sense

of seasons or patterns of weather after
being here for some time, as they are
quite subtle.  But let me just assert it is a
complete and utter fallacy that it never

rains in California, certainly in the best
part of our great state, which of course
is the San Francisco Bay Area, as I have
personally witnessed this specacle several 

times, just in the past several weeks, and 

mostly while observing it through my living 

room windows from my cool and dry apartment,
that there does occur here an almost storm-

like hard and heavy rain that lasts in duration
more often than not just a few distinct moments
before once again, if one is lucky, and one scurries
rather quickly out and back in to run whatever out

door errands one must accomplish, one can be out
and back in again before another hard rain occurs.
In fact, it might be several months before another
hard rain can be witnessed. This is a myth-busting fact.