With us heading into another Niña I wonder if we’re in this dryness for the long haul? Usually things turn dry between August and October in Niña years and the pattern doesn’t usually break until the Niña does in February/March. Though this past year it actually strengthened and lasted an extra 2 months.
Like clockwork, every third winter is a non winter. There's a reason I also wrote off this up coming winter last year, looks like I'll be right about this one.
Since 2016 every time those big white mushrooms show up after a prolonged wet period there's always some form of drought development before the calendar year is out.
This is a budding 2nd year nina, we could very well see those types of dew points into early October and highs in the 80s into late October. Happened 2016 and 2017.