War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Windy with drizzling rain this early Thursday on California’s north coast as we await another storm system expected to sweep through the area tonight. This morning’s precipitation is just a continuance of the ‘wet haze’ effect we seem to collect along the Pacific shore. Surfing online news sites reveals no breaking waves of interest —…
Crystal-clear and cold in an alliterated early Friday here on California’s north coast — all is quiet. We’re supposed to have sunshine and warm temperatures the next few days, and no rain for some time. Woke up in a sad funk this morning. On occasion I start a day like this, especially if my kids…
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,…
Rainy and warm this early Thursday on California’s north coast, another segment on winter 2014. And the word, ‘warm,’ is a major factor here — at 4 in the freakin’ morning, it’s near 55 degrees, which is about the temperature of mid-day around these parts. Meanwhile, way to the east, the US Atlantic seaboard is…
Heavy ground fog this way-too-early Tuesday here on California’s north coast, and the rain storm scheduled for last night didn’t show up, so it’s been re-positioned for later this week. The rainfall off last weekend’s deluge, though won’t stop the drought conditions, did give California’s communities a reprieve for awhile, but the months-long high-pressure system…
Weather talk nowadays ain’t no more just idle chit-chat. Here on California’s north coast we had a near-about gorgeous day — overcast some, but warm temperatures, and on occasion, a bit of sunshine. Our environmental scenario supposedly shifts big-time tonight, though, with a cold front expected carrying more rain. We need the rainfall, but…nearly three…
Overcast and feeling like rain this early Thursday up here on California’s north coast, a sense hopefully that really does pan out — big wet weather set for tonight and on into the weekend. Forecasts indicate 3 to 5 inches of rain between now and Sunday with heavy snow in the mountains, and “…we should…
Key to the latest Eddie-Snowden tidbit: Even more troubling, according to Information’s assessment, is that the top secret “document suggests that the NSA’s […] focus in relation to climate change was spying on other countries to collect intelligence that would support American interests, rather than preventing future climate catastrophes.” (Illustration found here). This newest sketch…
Overcast with shimmering ground fog this early Thursday on California’s north coast — but no rain. Our latest storm front is history. And so is water — the San Francisco Chronicle: It is a bleak roadmap of the deepening crisis brought on by one of California’s worst droughts – a list of 17 communities and…
