War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Sunshine just a little while ago, now coastal fog has replaced the upswing brightness this Monday morning here on California’s north coast, and like a mental patient with mood swings, the shoreline weather is all over the place. And hot, too. Reportedly, this is to be one hot week, especially of course, for the interior,…
Bright and sunny this Saturday afternoon on California’s north coast as we continue onward through the weekend. And on through the summer — supposedly California’s forest-fire season. The burning started earlier this year, if it really stopped at all during the winter, and also continues onward, with 3,600 fires statewide in 2015, ‘almost 1,300 more…
Broken-overcast this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, with sunshine playing a more aggressive part in our morning — hope is for more brightness this afternoon. Yesterday was about the same, too, but little sunshine arrived later. According to the NWS, there were more than 500 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes on Monday across the interior of…
Overcast with some occasional thin-ass sunshine this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast, and another mundane summer-weather episode for us. Not so last weekend down southern-California way — Science writer Bob Henson at WunderBlog this morning: Amazingly, the past weekend produced more rain in San Diego than the previous 100 Julys combined (1915–2014). This was also…
Bright sunshine and a warm-wispy wind this Thursday afternoon on California’s north coast — the ideal summer day, most-likely about the best it gets. Supposedly about 77-degrees right now, with the interior reading 20-degrees hotter, but without that wonderful sea breeze. The NWS also released preliminary rainfall totals from last month, but moisture around here was…
Water liability in the land of the dry — not-so-novel concept to control water use amongst the citizenry. From the Guardian this morning: The 19 people gathered at the community centre in Santa Cruz, a parched beachside city south of San Francisco, faced a crash course in rainfall statistics, reservoir levels, pump technology, meter reading,…
Fog-damp and gray this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, another heavy marine layer hamming-up the environment — although yesterday morning looked like right now, the afternoon turned out pretty sweet, with bright sunshine and a gentle breeze. Maybe more of the same today? Despite our pleasant conditions here, severe weather the norm for middle…
Sunshine peeks through the clouds this Monday morning, breaking the depressing fog-laced gloom of the last few weeks — yesterday’s sunrise actually had some shine to it, and Sunday afternoon was the best little weather spell in a while. Although the sunshine is intermittent, it’s way-better that the gloom of a massive marine layer wallowing…
A thick, gloomy marine fog holds gray-hostage our environment this Friday afternoon on California’s north coast — clouds to the east appear heavy with rain, but apparently it just looks that way — just heavy layers of dry. Dry is the subject of climate change in California, i.e., a notorious drought and our only habitat…
Overcast and thickly-gloomy this Thursday mid-day on California’s north coast — we could be having some thunderstorms maybe this afternoon, coming off the rainy weather bubbling eastward in the mountain valleys, as the skies look damp and chilly. Nip ain’t the word, though — record temperatures last month: ‘In drought-plagued California, “we’re beating the record…
