It's not as loaded as some of it's predecessors like illegal alien or wetback. But it still is a loaded term. And when we talk about drivers who violate the driving laws, we don't talk about illegal drivers. We talk about children who work in violation of the child labor laws.
Tulare County, California, gets 8 inches of rain per year. The US average is 39. Snowfall is 0 inches. The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 24. On average, there are 270 sunny days per year in Tulare County, California. The July high is around 97 degrees. The January low is 37. Sperling's comfort index for Tulare County is a 77 out of 100, where a higher score indicates a more comfortable year-around climate.
Downtown Los Angeles has received only 41% of the average rainfall received in the last 137 years. More than half of the rain in the last 12 months came in only one storm, which dumped 3.35 inches of rain in the last three days of February, said William Patzert, climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.