Another gorgeous weekend behind us and another pleasant, unseasonably mild week lies ahead. If it weren't for the deepening drought, we wouldn't have a complaint to offer. There is a bit of rain in the forecast. It's another tease.

Forecasters say there's yet another cold front moving toward us from the north and west. When it arrives Tuesday it will displace the high-pressure that has delivered all this fine weather. We'll see a growing chance for showers and thunderstorms as the day goes by, with the likelihood rising to 80 percent in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, they're only calling for a tenth to maybe a quarter-inch of rain during the day, and perhaps another few hundreths overnight. This kind of rain - much like the shower systems that moved through here last week, won't end the drought. They're not even giving us normal rainfall.

What we really need is a tropical storm or two, or a complete change in the global weather patterns to get us back into the middle of the storm track. We remain 10.5 inches in the red for precipitation since Jan. 1, with more than half of that just since Sept. 1. And the long-range forecasts show no change in the pattern.