Rock-n-Rain
March 11, 2014Clear and quiet this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — no heavy-duty ground movement either in the wake of a cluster-swarm earthquakes on Sunday. And we “…dodged the bullet…” again — although the 6.8…
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Shaken, Stirred, and Scared
March 10, 2014Rain and a bit of wind this early morning, but knock all the weather aside, the big event happened a few hours ago — a 6.9 earthquake about 70 miles from me. Seventy miles ain’t…
Worse-Case
March 8, 2014Gray skies covered by thick-looking clouds this early Saturday on California’s north coast — no indication, though, of the end results. In exactly 24 hours from exactly now, I’ll be an hour ahead of myself,…
Fly-By Krazy
March 5, 2014Overcast, drizzly and warm this mid-week Wednesday, and here on California’s north coast we feeling like spring. Yesterday was pure sunshine and heat — March came in as a soft, sweet putty-cat. And today, earth…
Cup of Joe — To Go
February 27, 2014Steady rain with fog this way-too-early Thursday here on California’s north coast as we wade through a series of weather systems guaranteed to water-down the region, but not stop the dry. Fog with rain seems…
Nuclear Leaks, Pacific-Current Edition
February 25, 2014Beyond weather and the Olympics last week, a lot of shit went nearly unnoticed, one such was the highly-under-reported news story of yet another episode from the continuing horror tale taking place at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear…
Friday Cry
February 21, 2014Crystal-clear and cold in an alliterated early Friday here on California’s north coast — all is quiet. We’re supposed to have sunshine and warm temperatures the next few days, and no rain for some time.…
Dark is the New Warm
February 20, 2014High overcast and a bit on the cold side this way-too-early Thursday on California’s north coast, with not much rain in sight for the next few days. The weekend is forecast for sunny and warm…
Drought From On High
February 19, 2014(Illustration: NASA satellite image of California’s drought, late January-early February 2014, found here). Picture of brown — the photo above looks like it came from history, a snapshot of some past time. But no… In…
Fly-by, Near-miss
February 17, 2014Another piece of space rock, without much advance warning, will shave close to the earth this evening — known as 2000 EM26, the 885-foot wide asteroid (about three football fields) is scheduled to zap past…