After a long, dry January, the weatherpeople have prophecied a week’s worth of rain.

You know how this happens. Some eight-year-old in Los Gatos or Pleasanton or some other privilieged suburb got mad the other day and yelled at his mother, “I hope it rains on your cycling club outing this weekend and it never stops!!”

And now that eight-year-old is going to have to learn the lesson we all had to learn from our 4th grade reading textbooks: that you should never yell at your mother, and now you’re going to Learn Your Lesson.

No, seriously. it’s just El Niño.