Drought Will Persist in Orange County...As It Does Every Year

I'm not really sure why this was news:

The U.S. Climate Prediction Center says the drought in Orange County and much of the rest of California will “persist or intensify” through October. But forecasters also say it’s possible that conditions will ease later in the fall, especially if the El Nino in the equatorial Pacific brings early and ample rain.

Is this unusual? Let's jump in the wayback machine and look at an article from September 2008:

The U.S. Climate Prediction Center says that the moderate drought in Orange County is likely to “persist or intensify” through November, which would further dry the region’s already parched landscape.

The reality is we have a drought here every year starting around the first of May and running through October or November when the winter rain patterns start setting up. Rain in Orange County during the late Spring and Summer is very rare. Occasionally we'll get a monsoonal set-up that will give us a shower or two, but we rarely have any rain in the bank before October.

I think we'll survive.