Permafrost Melt — Panic, but not Full-Panic — Yet

Gray-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 in the bowels of fog-city… Good news from a study on an eventual-horrible situation with global warming: ‘“Our research indicates that…

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Fire, and Way-Rain

Sunshine 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 — eastward just a short space from where I’m located, heat increases. Although we along the shoreline were in the…

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Fog and Fire

Deep, 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 yesterday.’ And most-likely, all the other environmental-ingredients as well, too. Although damp here, in Lake County this morning, the so-named…

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Permafrost Melt — ‘Uncharted Territory in the Human Experience’

Sunshine this afternoon, tempered with cool ocean breezes. Too much temperature — on Wednesday a crucial environment story, an anthrax outbreak in Siberia (via NPR): ‘Officials don’t know exactly how the outbreak started, but the current hypothesis is almost unbelievable: A heat wave has thawed the frozen soil there and with it, a reindeer carcass…

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‘The Impacts of Climate Change Are No Longer Subtle’

Misty ground fog this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — a couple of hours ago, from all appearances, we were going to be treated to a lately-rare sunshine morning, with clear skies eastward, and the first, startling rays of sunlight topping the mountains. However, this tale has been told. Shoreline weather has a life…

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‘Exacerbate’ Everything

Monday morning here on California’s north coast, and once again a thick mat of gray outside as the routine-like marine layer continues to hold sway. Temperatures are supposed to cool, though Willow Creek is expected to top 90-degrees today — the interior stays hot, while we along the shoreline calendar-through another weather-pattern of fog-to-sunshine, which…

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Fire in the Heat

Damp-gray early Friday here on California’s north coast, seemingly the morning-norm nowadays, a way-contrast with recent afternoons of clear, bright skies and warm temperatures. Locally, however, the word, ‘warm,’ doesn’t at all necessarily mean ‘hot‘ — the NWS says we could top 70-degrees today, but I doubt it. Enjoy-ability (and chill factor) depends on the wind,…

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‘…tell the truth about the global warming stuff and all of that’

Deep-fog and way-moist air this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, as we continue the summer of heat. Asshole Jim Inhofe talking some heinous shit last week (Think Progress yesterday): “You know, our kids are being brainwashed? I never forget because I was the first one back in 2002 to tell the truth about the…

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Weather Take

Fog-city again this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, a repetition of repeating weather. Cool here, of course, but seemingly nowhere else. California and most of the US are engulfed in a horrific heat wave, festering wildfires — update this morning on the Santa Clarita fire near LA: ‘“It has averaged about 10,000 acres per day,”…

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‘Completely Opposite’ to Reality

Gray and damp this Monday morning on California’s north coast, another day in the life. A bit of guilt even as we cool here on the Pacific shoreline, not far eastward temperatures way-climb, sometimes 20-30-degrees higher — meanwhile, across a big chunk of the US right now, the notorious “heat dome” is frying the citizenry, though,…

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