For many of you on the east coast, this has been a brutal winter with all the snow. For those of us out here in California, it’s been sunny and mild, even hot sometimes. In other words, it’s an been an even more brutal winter. From the LA Times: California has about one year of water left.

+ Some people are making the best of their winter. Check out the wakeskater who caught some air on Cape Cods ice slabs.