Excerpt from California's 1961 Fire Weather Brings Near-Record Losses Figure 1. Annual precipitation for a five-year period in 10 selected areas. The warm pattern was broken temporarily in late July as the ridge moved off the coast, but it returned strongly again in August. Also in August, the moist tongue of air which.norma11y extends from the Gulf of Mexico across the Southwest this time of the year shifted westward, caus ing an unusually large number of lightning storms in California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.