“I wrote two songs about the rain, one very stormy summer spent in Washington, D.C,” Nauphal says. “It gets so hot and humid, and the pressure builds and builds and builds until it breaks into these raging storms; they’re hard not to write about, especially when they mirror your state of mind…‘Is It Raining in California?’ is about the messy middle part of getting over someone, when you’re still yearning for them but don’t want to be, and you’re mad at yourself for feeling what you feel but you just can’t help it. So you ask if it’s raining where they are, however unlikely that may be, in the hopes that you might be sharing something still.”

In the music video, Nauphal is at band practice, doing her best to keep her lost love out of her mind. “The cherry on top – it started storming halfway through the shoot,” she recalls.

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