War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Drizzling rain and chilly this Monday morning on California’s north coast as we near the end of our latest block of ‘conveyor-belt’ rainstorms — supposedly, clear skies with lots of sunshine starting tomorrow and lasting a few days. According to the NWS, a high pressure moving slowly, and sulking about the shoreline will keep the…
Bright, glaring sunshine this early Monday on California’s north coast, and way-warm, too — feels weird. Beautiful, though, and highly regarded, so feel the burn — we could get above 70 today. Supposedly, there’s a strong ridge of high pressure over the western US, keeping El Niño at bay, creating off-season conditions — Steve Anderson,…
Sunshine this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, for a little while anyway, as the bright is buffered by decent cloud cover. Supposedly, a short break today with another ass-kicker rainstorm due tomorrow evening and into Friday — next nice, clear-weather day forecast maybe for Sunday. Nowadays, weather chit-chat ain’t idle. In a case of…
Clear and oddly warm this early Wednesday on California’s north coast. After some rainy/drizzly days, nice to experience a sharp, translucent morning unaccompanied by chilly temperatures — creates a somewhat amiable ambience to the air. Heavy-rain free for the next couple of days, supposedly ‘isolated thunderstorms‘ maybe, but seemingly just ‘patchy drizzle‘ until tomorrow sometime…
An encounter too-close of any kind. According to NASA: ‘Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighborhood.’ Quaint — and one of those NEOs is scheduled to give us a close-bypass tomorrow afternoon, and it’s…
Bright and windy this afternoon along California’s north coast, coasting on through the week. Although a news addict, I didn’t spot this via NASA until this afternoon: ‘“Asteroid Icarus will safely pass by Earth at more than 21 times the distance of Earth to the moon on June 16. To put it another way, Icarus, one…
Clear with a wisp of ground fog this early Friday on California’s north coast — and a cold chill accompanying a brightening sky to the east. We’re set supposedly for ‘mostly sunny’ through the end of next week before any chance of rain — yesterday afternoon blossomed into another warm, amicable episode in a mostly-dry,…
Rain and gloomy-dark outside this early Friday on a small patch huddled near California’s north coast — getting close to a month now, of rain and gloomy-dark — more rain forecast for days to come, maybe some decent sun on Tuesday of next week. After a near-continuous drenching for awhile now — since July, San Francisco’s…
Clear and chilly outside this early Monday — way-high, wispy clouds, though, will most-likely tone-down sunshine — but this little patch of California’s north coast does feel the sense of real, around-here cold for the first time this year. Temperatures reportedly in the low-40s with a slight, sharp-crisp breeze, the ambience on my back patio…
(Illustration: NASA satellite image of California’s drought, late January-early February 2014, found here). Drizzling sprinkles this early Friday on California’s north coast as the season slowly shifts, a little quiet, too, as yesterday afternoon turned exceptionally gorgeous — bright sunshine and a pleasant breeze, which seemed to feel more warm than it really should, or…
