‘Red Flag’ Bear-Polar
April 5, 2016Scattered cloud cover with lots of sunshine this early Tuesday on California’s north coast as we continue into a week of heat — at least the next couple of days; supposedly, we might even reach…
Category Archives: Environment
Reservoir Snow Dogs
March 31, 2016Bright sunshine from the east here this Thursday morning on California’s north coast, while just west of Mckinleyville Avenue, within sight from my front window, lies a deep-gray fog bank, waiting to quash the dazzling…
Climate Change — ‘Honestly, it’s frightening’
March 28, 2016(Illustration found here). In just a week, a bit of frightful climate news — maybe more frightful than usual. Starting off last Monday, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released its Status of the Climate Global…
‘Ash’ There, Sunshine Here
March 28, 2016Bright sunshine and a bit on the chilly side this early Monday on California’s north coast as we launch into a maybe-extended period of nice weather. Chilled when it’s clear, so it goes, and according…
‘Day’ of Water
March 21, 2016A Monday with a Monday’s weather — heavy rain and wind here this morning on California’s north coast, supposedly continuing in similar fashion on-and-off until tomorrow. Rain didn’t get too dense until well after daybreak…
Drought Measures of Dumb
March 18, 2016Gray-moist change-of-pace this early Friday on California’s north coast — a switch from bright-sunshine daybreaks this past week, to a gloomy marine layer this morning that’s got us all fogged. However, just ‘normal‘ for Humboldt…
Also Weathering ‘Super-Tuesday 2’
March 15, 2016Sometimes bright, glaring sunshine this early Tuesday on California’s north coast as we skip merrily through a pre-spring ‘heat wave‘ this week, clear skies soaking up rays in the forecast — wet weather gone awhile.…
A ‘Climate Emergency’ — Duh!
March 14, 2016Drizzling rain and chilly this Monday morning on California’s north coast as we near the end of our latest block of ‘conveyor-belt’ rainstorms — supposedly, clear skies with lots of sunshine starting tomorrow and lasting…
Another Climate Threshold
March 13, 2016Last week brought a cluster of environmental news, and this popped yesterday, and doesn’t bode well in the culminating future. From the UK’s Independent: Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere “exploded” last year to reach…
Radioactive Remembrance
March 11, 2016Five years later and the bad-beat goes on — via Newsweek yesterday: ‘The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima’s nuclear reactors have “died”…authorities still don’t how to dispose of highly radioactive water…