Category Archives: Weather

I know there are parts of the country (HI, VERMONT!) where it’s still below freezing on a regular basis.

SoCal is not one of those places.

We might get some rain on Friday and be back down into the 50’s and 60’s, but for the last several days and today it’s been pushing 90ºF.

On the rough days, one advantage to working from home is the chance to go out for a quick stroll around the back yard and recover your sense of balance and re-connect to the real world.

Even if you’re in an office and not working from home, I highly recommend it once every couple of hours!

Well…semi-random at least. Tonight I decided to look for other photos taken on January 21st in other years.

Tough search. Not many to be found, and most of them to be family related, personal, not necessarily for sharing here.

But in 2010, a dozen years ago…

Apparently, it was a “frog drowner.”

Not so much tonight. While we’ve had some showers in the past week, and we got a LOT of rain in December, it’s dry and SUPER WINDY in SoCal tonight.

Here we’re windy. In many other places in SoCal it’s gusting to 60 and even 70+ and there are power outages all over the place. Up north, on the Central Coast by Big Sur, there’s a brush fire that’s started. And many folks are pointing out that if we hadn’t had a soaking through most of December, the entire West Coast could be in flames with these winds.

Hang on. It’s 2022. Looking back at 2020 and 2021 we were hoping that 2022 would calm down. It seems instead to have said, “Hold my beer!”

Again, as always out here where they decided to build megalopolises in a desert, we need the rain.

The three days of it we just got came as a complete surprise.

The clouds are headed out (I think) and the moon is about 99.8% full, so I tried playing with how it looked through the now barren tree.

The owls off down the hill added to the spookiness quotient.

Sometimes, you just need to MAKE time to look at the clouds.

If you didn’t get to do that today, here, please, use some of mine!

Sometimes you’ll even spot a quarter moon hanging up there in the late afternoon.

Or a hawk or two, or crows, or crows harassing hawks, or a flock of goofy juncos taking their chance to bolt for cover while the crows are harassing the hawks.

Mostly today I saw layers. Some low, dark clouds, some puffy white stuff at about 5,000′, and some thin, icy streaks at about 15,000′.

It would have been a nice day for flying.

After more days of rain (which we desperately need, so it’s welcome!) tonight it stopped and started getting much colder, down into the 30’s. I noticed that I couldn’t see a thing out the back windows, looking toward the Valley.

I went out and found the Valley to be filled with fog, but Orion brilliantly bright straight overhead where it was crystal clear. We were just barely, right at the top of the fog layer, looking over the top of it.

It was extremely spooky. I liked it.