Bright moon, full-ish. Might be tonight, might have been last night. Whatever, close enough for government work.
Odd trail of cloud covering it.
The clouds and the moon are 250,000 miles apart, I think it’s just a coincidental alignment. I like to keep an eye open for such things. And then share them.
Filed under Astronomy, Photography, Space, Weather
Stuck down here, wishing I were up there.
Oh, didn’t notice the irridescent rainbow arc around the Sun until now! That’s nice…
Filed under Paul, Photography, Weather
“May Grey” (which leads to “June Gloom” here in SoCal) has arrived early. Coastal fog and clouds, often thickening enough to get light drizzle, but never any real rain.
At night, the clouds often allow some moonlight to filer through from above, while also reflecting all of the city lights. Yet you can still see some texture and the occasional hole where a bright star might shine through.
I hear the owls and night hawks and think of how wonderful I imagine it would be to be up there in these clouds and odd light, soaring and diving, drifting and coasting on the thermals.
Filed under Photography, Weather
As stated, a very long, exhausing day.
The good news – thanks to outstanding work by the team, a huge freakin’ problem has been solved. It’s been tough sleeping for the past few nights with that one hanging over my head.
The bad news – we spent this afternoon and evening at a funeral for a beloved family member. She had been sick for a while, so it wasn’t a surprise, but it was still emotional and traumatic.
Even in the middle of all of the running around, I needed to stop for gas. The clouds were sublime and wispy and ausgetzeichnet!
Filed under Family, Photography, Sunsets, Weather
There was just about 0% chance of rain for the next ten days when I checked yesterday. Then I heard thunder.
It wasn’t close, and I never saw lightning, but I definitely heard thunder. And that looks like a thunderstorm, moving our way.
I double checked the weather app & forecast. No mention of rain or possibility of rain, let alone a big thunder boomer. But that Southwest 737 just to the left of the big tree, heading into Runway 8 at Burbank, was making damn sure he stayed a bit off to the right.
(Image from Weather Radar)
What does the weather radar app say? Well, lookee there! It seems the radar app wasn’t communicating with the weather app, or at least it wasn’t listening. Later we saw that there had been a flash flood alert issued for that area in red and orange.
Pity it had moved south toward Beverly Hills and dissipated before dark. It would have been nice to watch the lightning.
Highly unusual! Give ’em Hell, April! 10/10 for style points!
Filed under Photography, Weather
And thin. And complex once you start paying attention to the details.
Makes me want to be a bird. Maybe one of those hawks…
Filed under Photography, Weather
There was a clear spot in today’s rain and clouds, and looking straight up it was just a bit like being in the eye of a hurricane.
There were at least four, maybe five or six distinct layers of clouds visible, each being blown by the winds in a different direction.
They also had very distinct structures in each layer, and the lighting made the higher altitude layers brilliantly bright white, while the lowest layers were grey and threatening.
It looked lovely. Then those low, grey ones on the edges moved back over and the rain returned.
I ran. At least, hustled a little bit.
Filed under Photography, Weather
The new computer arrived today. The good news is that it was originally estimated to arrive March 12th. Eleven days early is GREAT, considering how fast the old computer was failing. The bad news is that I have to set up the new computer and install all of the programs and get them set up the way I like them – in the meantime it’s like I’m trying to work with oven mitts on, drunk, and with one arm tied behind my back.
Frustrating, to say the least.
Yesterday night I was playing with with time lapse function on the iPhone, watching the coastal clouds stream by during sunset. It turned out pretty nice. See?
It’s truly depressing how quickly our government is being dismantled and a century of hard-earned alliances and trust just tossed into the trash by the psychotic traitor in the White House and his cult. I knew it was coming – I just had no idea it was coming so incredibly fast.
Today’s embarrassing debacle in the Oval Office is a new low, even for this group of ignorant chucklefucks.
Maybe March will be better… (I’m putting my hopes in choelesterol and ketamine.)
In the meantime, the only advice I’ve got to share is to go outside, watch clouds, breathe, relax, and get your blood pressure back down. The clouds here this morning were lovely!
Filed under Photography, Politics, Weather
A half hour or so prior to sunset we were getting a high layer of clouds and I had hopes that it might lead to one of those really colorful & spectacular sunsets.
It did not.
It wasn’t grey and terrible, not exactly Suckasaurus Rex, but neither was it mind blowing and spectacular.
A little pink, some deep oranges right at the horizon, and Venus trying to shine through.
Beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!
Filed under Photography, Sunsets, Weather
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