‘Overshoot’

Patchy fog this Monday morning on California’s north coast, yet on occasion, sunshine makes half-hearted attempts to slice through the gray, but mostly haphazard at best — might clear before noon maybe. Unless something weird occurs, we should end up with another pleasant day along the shoreline, and somewhat cooler temperatures inland, opposed to the…

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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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Living Instead of Dying

In the fog-bank, gray-zone once again this early Thursday on California’s north coast — gloomy prelude, however, to an expected  bright, sunshine-filled afternoon. Unless something goes terribly wrong… How about what’s normal, but wrong — like getting old? This month will mark two years since my retirement, and aging seemingly is an unfair piece of…

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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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Flower in the Bowl — Pot Lifestyles

Sunshine, near-clear skies and warm this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — another in the summer series of wonderful shoreline days. Although the wind is expected to pick-up later, right now it’s gorgeous. Beyond the crazed world, and the even-more crazed US presidential election, new information on how long people have been getting stoned…

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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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