‘Oild Lang Syne’
December 31, 2014Bright sunshine and chilly air this afternoon here on California’s north coast, as another year wraps down. Big surprise for 2014 — price at the pump. Since I don’t travel much, or very far, been nearly…
Category Archives: Cloud Gazing
So Cold It’s Hot
December 31, 2014Clear and cold this way-too-early Wednesday here along California’s north coast — the last day of 2014. And to an old guy, anyway, a chill-ass ending to the year. Relatively-weirdly speaking, of course: ‘Las Vegas…
Hypnagogic Actuality
December 30, 2014Clear and cold this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — right now about 35 degrees, with a high of maybe the low-50s, but supposedly a lot of sun. Seems to have gotten colder, quicker…
‘Radical’ Shark Attack
December 29, 2014Amongst the news items this morning, an incident yesterday of the ‘all’s-well-that-ends-well’ genre after a 50-year-old surfer dude’s encounter with a great white shark — and in my old home waters. Kevin Swanson was surfing…
Middle-Class Dreams
December 29, 2014Despite a beautiful, sunshine-filled early morning, Monday afternoon finds itself wet once again — rain here on California’s north coast as the NWS terms it ‘isolated rain showers,’ but as reality reveals, it’s not all…
Pellucid and Peculiar
December 26, 2014Clear, clean sunshine this Friday morning on California’s north coast — not a cloud in sight, and frost on nearby rooftops, first time this year, I recollect. Thirty-three degrees reportedly within the hour right now,…
Bright
December 25, 2014Clear, brilliant-bright sunshine this early Thursday on California’s north coast — a nice, semi-surprise, some decent sun was originally projected by maybe on Tuesday, but later forecasts with more rain said Friday, but here it…
About Face
December 24, 2014High overcast and a bit on the chilly side this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — heavy rain expected later today, on Thursday, too, and maybe, just maybe, some sunshine on Friday. Last week,…
“Bleaching” Oceans
December 23, 2014Overcast with hanging ground fog this afternoon on California’s north coast, and chilly, too — local temperatures reportedly hovering in the mid-50s, but the air feels moist and cold. Totals for November rainfall from the NWS,…
Petro Rain
December 22, 2014Rain again this early Monday on California’s north coast, feels like it’s raining all over the world. Nearly two months of this wet stuff for most of the time, and the accompanying, gray-gothic clouds, real-gloomy-like…