Category Archives: Weather

More sunset-ish tonight.

A little bit of everything out there.

Layers on layers, row on row, all with a really nice color pallette.

Boy, talk about “air quotes!”

One thing that I consider with every house I’m looking at on Zillow is the view, in particular the number of telephone poles and wires. Trees are one thing, and the wires aren’t a deal killer, but they’re most certainly worth a couple of demerits.

Virga. The wisps dropping away from clouds like these is rain that’s starting to fall. But it’s falling into air that’s very dry so it evaporates before it hits the ground. That’s called “virga.”

Tomorrow is the fall equinox, the end of summer and beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.

I was eating dinner and caught the colorful sunset a bit past its prime. Beggars can’t be choosers. Plus, it was a very nice dinner!

So long, summer. I’ve seen worse, but god knows I’ve seen better.

Autumn? Would it kill you to not suck? I sent you the wish list. Let’s knock a few things off of it!

A little tropical moisture goes a long way.

Fall is coming.

Yet while the seasons change, so many things that we might like to change just seem to keep trudging on the same, day after day.

Perception and self awareness are not all they’re cracked up to be.

The clouds were starting to roll in by sunrise this morning, and it’s been mostly cloudy all day.

Just around sunset, enough clouds broke up to let some amazingly golden rays through.

The storm track has continued to shift a bit to the east, so while we’re still under an official Flood Watch and a Tropical Storm warning, we’re now expecting about 24 hours (roughly noon tomorrow to noon on Monday) of high (but not hurricane force!) winds and a decent amount (3″-ish, probably on the higher side) of rain over that time.

We won’t flood, we’re on top of the hill, but it’s possible there could be some local flash flooding. But we’re not going anywhere, so that shouldn’t be an issue. The biggest threat that I see might be a power outage, but spoiled freezer and refrigerator contents are the worst consequences of that.

Inland in the deserts? Flash flooding is a huge possibility. Places like Death Valley could get more rain in twelve hours tomorrow than they normally get in three years. Flash floods in the past have taken out bridges over dry riverbeds on the interstates heading toward Arizona and Nevada, so that’s a concern. Lots of folks are stuck living near burn areas from brush fires, and with these kinds of rain mudslides are a possibility and they could cause significant damage. Storm surge could cause serious coastal flooding and damage along the coast and out on Catalina Island.

In short, it’s a BIG area and I don’t expect too many issues HERE, but Hilary is a major, powerful, HUGE storm and elsewhere in SoCal it could get really nasty. Let’s hope that it doesn’t.