War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Another clear and breezy morning this Thursday on California’s north coast as we prepare for the weekend — and the weather is cooperating. Yesterday was pure gorgeous. Bright sunshine with very-little wind, which is abnormal especially for the afternoon, and way-warm — I opened windows to let the draft clear out my apartment, and, marched…
Clear and quiet this early Tuesday on California’s north coast — no heavy-duty ground movement either in the wake of a cluster-swarm earthquakes on Sunday. And we “…dodged the bullet…” again — although the 6.8 (downgraded from a .9) shaker was even bigger than the 2010 6.5, the effects were way different. Sunday’s tumbler was…
Rain and a bit of wind this early morning, but knock all the weather aside, the big event happened a few hours ago — a 6.9 earthquake about 70 miles from me. Seventy miles ain’t nothing when the earth moves. Along with the 6.9, there have been at least 19 aftershocks — the giant at…
Gray skies covered by thick-looking clouds this early Saturday on California’s north coast — no indication, though, of the end results. In exactly 24 hours from exactly now, I’ll be an hour ahead of myself, so who really knows? Yesterday, Joe Romm at Climate Progress posted the horrific e-mail of the week — from one…
Overcast and way-windy this early Friday on California’s north coast as we face the second major rain storm coming today and lasting all through the weekend. Here on the ocean’s edge we don’t get as much rain as just a mile or so inland — yesterday was mostly just drizzle/fine mist with a heavy downpour…
Steady rain with fog this way-too-early Thursday here on California’s north coast as we wade through a series of weather systems guaranteed to water-down the region, but not stop the dry. Fog with rain seems unusual, but we get it all the time — unusual a way of life behind the Redwood Curtain. The state…
Clear and quiet this early Monday on California’s north coast, with the outside air feeling a bit more on the warmer side than the last few days. Two big rain storms are expected tomorrow night/maybe early Wednesday, and then again on Friday — big storms, but too little for the any drought assistance. Meteorologist Duane Dykema:…
High overcast and a bit on the cold side this way-too-early Thursday on California’s north coast, with not much rain in sight for the next few days. The weekend is forecast for sunny and warm — Ha! to winter. However, the weather is after all, the weather and nobody knows the future. Especially, the guys/gals…
(Illustration: NASA satellite image of California’s drought, late January-early February 2014, found here). Picture of brown — the photo above looks like it came from history, a snapshot of some past time. But no… In that time-frame with the image, California is in the midst of its worse drought since such record-keeping started, in 1885,…
As awaiting the arrival of another rainstorm, a reminder of how near-ultimate-precious is/are/be ‘water‘ — from the American Museum of Natural History: Compared to the other animals featured in this section, humans seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to water. We’re dependent on the day-to-day availability of fresh, clean water. We can’t…
