The polar bear plungers in Olalla only had to get out of the water to warm up. The roaring bonfire a few feet from the shorlines this year was overkill. Heading into Wednesday, the West Sound area had received less than 6 inches of rain so far this year. Normal through the end of the month is more than 14 inches. It had better start raining.
People actually are worried about the dry winter.
This is ironic. We moved here from drought-plagued Texas, where entire lakes had been turned to puddles in recent years. But this winter, it has been one snowfall after another there, interrupted only by ice storms. I talked to a friend in Amarillo. They've had 41 inches of snow this winter.