Politics of Weather
September 2, 2016Foggy and chilly this early Friday on California’s north coast — to the east, sunshine occasionally acts like it’s burning through the gray, but the little-dab of bright fades quickly away into a deep-shade of…
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Unseasonable ‘Sparks’ Memory Fire
August 31, 2016Scattered-sunshine/scattered-overcast this near-noon Wednesday on California’s north coast, counting-down the hours til the end of summer. And for this particular stretch, I’d call it, a ‘summer of fog,’ or at least, ‘one-half-to-three-quarters summer of fog,’…
Global Warming Reaches ‘Exceptional Territory’
August 30, 2016Surprise, surprise! Sunshine this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, and it looks strange. After weeks of fog in the AM, we must adjust to a clear, clean sky — a wonderful adjustment, by the…
Pika Past-the-Time
August 26, 2016Misty-thick fog again this Friday morning on California’s north coast, and if like yesterday, the marine layer will never really vanish completely — heavy, gray blanket muffled our area before sundown last evening, most-likely the…
Permafrost Melt — Panic, but not Full-Panic — Yet
August 25, 2016Gray-matter again still this near-noon Thursday on California’s north coast — the marine layer feels more-chilly, though, a quick peek of sunshine much earlier might have caused a sense of colder temperatures. Now it’s deep…
Climate De-Icing
August 23, 2016Fog-bound again this near-noon Tuesday on California’s north coast — another day in the life as sunshine expected for the afternoon, and some wind, too. Beyond the climate-change-inducing wildfires and massive rainfall, the down-under of…
Waterline Drought
August 22, 2016Fog this early Monday on California’s north coast — Duh! Our summer weather pattern continues, but supposedly should be a bit cooler. Preliminary rainfall totals for last month from the NWS shows my little area was…
Fire, and Way-Rain
August 17, 2016Sunshine peeling-away the fog, here just short of noon Wednesday on California’s north coast. This afternoon’s forecast ‘Mostly Sunny‘ by the NWS, and the repetitive natural continues… And what’s not of nature is rising temperatures…
Balmy July — Yeah Right!
August 16, 2016Foggy-damp and chilly this near-noon Tuesday on California’s north coast — opposite poles for the interior, as Willow Creek could top 107-degrees today. Hot doesn’t feel the heat… No wonder, the whole-wide-world is heating —…
Fog and Fire
August 15, 2016Deep, moist gray this early Monday on California’s north coast as our daily pattern of marine-fog continues, a situation pretty-much summed-up on WunderBlog‘s weather thingy: ‘Today is forecast to be nearly the same temperature as…