Category Archives: 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.

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!

And thin. And complex once you start paying attention to the details.

Makes me want to be a bird. Maybe one of those hawks…

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.