Musings - on the editor's mind

Harbinger. Great word, that. It is a signaling by one thing – eight days of sunshine – of the approach of another: possibly a year of little rain.

We start the third week of the new year with mild, bright blue-sky sunny weather. It might rain the rest of this week and on into next but precipitation to date, at 0.79 inches, is well below the 4.13 inches January average for this century.

And the forecast, another projection, is not our friend. The models predict a winter that is warmer and dryer than normal. They do not show 3.5 inches of rain in the next two weeks.

January in our re...