Climate at the ‘Gap’

Faded sunshine/overcast this near-noon Monday on California’s north coast, with a goodly touch of the surrealistic smoke-influenced air that’s been missing the last few days. Although it’s cool here, the NWS  has a caution for triple-digit temperatures for the interior. As California churns through a dry-drought, the future is fire — UC Berkeley professor Scott…

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‘Demented’ Climate

Orange sunshine this early Friday on California’s north coast with more fog/smoke skies that have become commonplace the last few weeks, considered ‘haze, for lack of a better term. All those forest fires blazing through the interior have created surreal cloud cover with ‘orange’ sunshine slicing through on occasion — and adding to the comfort…

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Smoked Rain

Fog and smoke in the skies again this Tuesday afternoon along California’s north coast — gloomy, surrealistic clouds with no direct sunshine today at all as the marine layer plays second-fiddle to burning trees. Lake County continues to burn nearly out of control — even with some rain: ‘Cal Fire spokesman Jason Shanley says the rain…

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Surreal Skies

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…

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Beetle Fires

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.–…

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Sweaty-Heat Control

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…

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