War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Fogged-in this Sunday morning on California’s north coast — most-likely a portion of the marine layer mixed with ringed westward smoke from ‘tinderbox’ forests. As we burn, an apparent warning: The lede from a piece last Thursday by writer/photographer Subhankar Banerjee at TomDispatch: The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in…
Some faded sunshine this Friday afternoon on California’s north coast and a cool, wispy wind, too, as forest fires rage to the east and south of us.. After a dense marine layer hanging right on the shoreline earlier, the sea breeze pushed the heat away, but still way-pleasant here. No so in the hot interior.–…
Faded sunshine and way-cooler this Thursday afternoon on California’s north coast as the ‘heat wave’ for our shoreline has gone in a huff of mostly clouds motivated by a crisp breeze. Still hot via the interior, however, running the temp-gauge into triple digits. In the crank of observation, Californians are not only getting more concerned…
Bright and warm this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast as the ‘heat wave’ continues — according to a ‘Hazardous Weather Outlook‘ from the NWS: ‘Some areas may reach well into the 80s.’ Sarcasm — not! Especially if just a mile or so eastward, and ‘warm‘ becomes ‘hot as shit.’ And furthermore, such from a…
Nearly clear-as-a-bell with some bright sunshine this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, and although forecasters claim we could see temperatures in the low 80s today, a shoreline breeze will most-likely keep the real sweaty-heat away. Yet beach-side is still warm (via NWS Facebook page): ‘74 degrees at WFO Eureka at 12:05 PM. That is…
Yesterday a rocking unusual — a shaker way-too-close to the barn. Just 16 miles away from me, myself and I was a 3.0 earthquake, and though no damage or much movement detected, my fright level was after-the-fact off the charts. Details at the USGS. And to increase the shaker-paranoia, check out the latest quakes all over…
Sunshine just a little while ago, now coastal fog has replaced the upswing brightness this Monday morning here on California’s north coast, and like a mental patient with mood swings, the shoreline weather is all over the place. And hot, too. Reportedly, this is to be one hot week, especially of course, for the interior,…
Bright and sunny this Saturday afternoon on California’s north coast as we continue onward through the weekend. And on through the summer — supposedly California’s forest-fire season. The burning started earlier this year, if it really stopped at all during the winter, and also continues onward, with 3,600 fires statewide in 2015, ‘almost 1,300 more…
Broken-overcast this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, with sunshine playing a more aggressive part in our morning — hope is for more brightness this afternoon. Yesterday was about the same, too, but little sunshine arrived later. According to the NWS, there were more than 500 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes on Monday across the interior of…
Overcast with some occasional thin-ass sunshine this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, and another mundane summer-weather episode for us. Not so last weekend down southern-California way — Science writer Bob Henson at WunderBlog this morning: Amazingly, the past weekend produced more rain in San Diego than the previous 100 Julys combined (1915–2014). This was also…
