War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Misty, wet fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast as the fall weather pattern fits more like summer — this attitude will rob us of the lunar phenomenon due tonight. A ‘blood moon‘ and its environs: Sometimes, when the moon dips into Earth’s shadow during an eclipse, the natural satellite takes on a coppery-red…
Another bright morning here on California’s north coast, and a Monday at that, and the summer-like weather continues as we’re forecast for ‘warm’ temperatures and gentle ocean breezes. All masquerading as weather. And climate, though, the latter is shifting. An observation: Just about every week recently there’s an environmental study/report/research released indicating some bad indicator…
Maybe an ominous turn of events in the anti-ISIS campaign in Iraq — the crazy horde might secure Abu Ghraib, just outside Baghdad, and could place their captured US 155 mm howitzers within range of Baghdad International Airport. A major-bad to close the airport. From Mcclatchy: “These have a range of about (20 miles) and…
The Global AgeWatch Index, a study on the influence of old folks, reported the worse country in the whole world to grow old in is Afghanistan — a horrible tribute to a lost, terrified country, nearly forgotten. Next Tuesday, by the way, the 13th glorious anniversary of “Operation Enduring Freedom”, and operations indeed have endured.…
Near-crystal clear this early Thursday on California’s north coast, bright sunshine tempered by a chilled breeze — scheduled for the mid-70s today, maybe even 80 tomorrow. Odd, a frost advisory just a few miles inland. Still big news out yonder is the oddly-shaped collapse of the US Secret Service — a way-simple tale told on…
Clear and chilly this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — we’re forecast for some warm weather the next few days, supposedly near 80 tomorrow. Here so near the shoreline, though, all bets are either hedged, or called-off completely. Interesting weather-related new thing this morning, the NWS issued its first/last freeze warning dates for the…
Monday morning overcast and chilly on California’s north coast — sunshine later on is in the forecast. Maybe, maybe not. In the ugly business of news gathering, this was historically sad: Former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee is in hospice care after his health has declined over the past two months, said his wife, Sally Quinn.…
Overcast with a sharp-chilly wind this Thursday morning on California’s north coast — maybe more rain today, but the chances are slim. We did get some good totals from that last couple of days, especially here on the shoreline were storms can pass right over us. According to the NWS preliminary rainfall totals, my little town…
Rain in the gutters this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — NWS reports ‘Heavy Rain’ today with three-quarters to one inch expected. After just waking up sometime this morning between one and two o’clock, I was sing-songed back to sleep just at the rainstorm’s arrival — an orchestrated musical, lightly starting with a single, soft…
Windy, darkly-overcast, and storm-awaiting this afternoon here on California’s north coast — supposedly this up-coming wet-weather front could maybe douse us with a couple of inches of rain. And the wind is more-than brisk, gusting supposedly up to 25 mph, and really warm — winds coming out of the south, from over the Pacific, and…
