Sorrow of ‘Ice Friday’
December 6, 2013Clear and cold this early Friday on California’s north coast with icy rain due sometime later today in a frigid start-up to the weekend. Cold here, cold everywhere, especially across Texas and most of the…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
News PM Punch — Mandela Edition
December 5, 2013Cold and bright again this afternoon on California’s north coast, and freezing in the shade. Record lows around these parts last night/this morning. One elderly guy, who’s lived here since the early 1960s, told me…
Gymnastic Feats
December 5, 2013Clear and really, really cold this early Thursday on California’s north coast, and yesterday we had some record low temperatures, but still not as chilly as other parts of the Western US. For instance, Texas…
News PM Punch — ‘Live in a Cave’
December 4, 2013Cold and bright sunshine this mid-week afternoon on California’s north coast — and it’s supposed to really get cold around here tonight. Winter’s knocking hard, and I don’t want to let him in. Kicking in…
An ‘Unsolvable Problem’
December 4, 2013Clear and really-cold this early Wednesday here on California’s north coast with the air getting colder the closer to dawn. Away from the ocean and into the interior, temperatures could drop into the single digits, but…
News PM Punch — Weather the ‘Specificity’
December 3, 2013Way-bright sunshine chilled with a northerly wind this afternoon here on California’s north coast, as we hunker down for a hard-cold snap the next couple of days, temperatures forecast to dip to freezing and below,…
What’s That Stink?
December 3, 2013Clear and more than chilly this Tuesday morning up here on California’s north coast, and it seems we’re in for some cold — the high today is expected to be less than 50 degrees, and…
News PM Punch — ‘Doomsday’ Collection
December 2, 2013Haze filled with rain blankets California’s north coast this Monday afternoon — light sprinkle it might appear at first feel, but this type precipitation is way-deceiving — it will soak you to-the-bone in seconds. And…
Monday Vapors
December 2, 2013Ground fog with a drizzling rain this way-early Monday on California’s north coast, and the end to round one of a not-so-fabulous holiday season. This year might be a crazy yuletide. Despite the expansion of…
Iraq — ‘Near Future is Dark’
December 1, 2013(Illustration: A little Iraqi girl contemplates horror, Basra, Iraq, March 30, 2003, found here). Pushed further and further back in current history, the nightmare that’s Iraq is way-off the anywhere-near mainstream news cycle these days…