Category: Sunsets

Some recent pretty clods

Been busy as a briefly unretired science worker (gave a stressful talk at a university last week) and thought maybe a lot of usual drop ins to this site might not anymore.   So, in the title for today,  am reaching out to a new demographic: persons interested in congealed soil matter.  They might later, after… Continue reading Some recent pretty clods

Clouds continue to beguile, even when they’re tiny

As here,  just to reinforce that assertion a bit.  Its a link to a recent blog by my cloud-obsessed friend and author, Maria Mudd Ruth.  I strongly recommend buying a few of her books.  Really,  I do! But in viewing our deep blue skies, pocked with little fluffy Cumulus clouds over the past two or… Continue reading Clouds continue to beguile, even when they’re tiny

August disappoints: a look back at a disappointing August, and then a look forward at haze

August rainfall total in Sutherland Heights:  A measly 1.10 inches, to editorialize that bit, rather than to just report facts.   Average August rain here is  3.16 inches.  Egad. End of looking back….”What’s the Use” (Tuxedomoon) said it best, well, maybe. What about the haze?  Where’s it coming from and its awful! And its here… Continue reading August disappoints: a look back at a disappointing August, and then a look forward at haze

Sunset was pretty good; raindrops tomorrow morning? In nine days as well?

Haven’t had much to say, brain pretty empty again after the big review of the NAS 2003 review which really needed reviewing and commenting on real bad…. (More “late homework” in the offing.) ———————- Nice sunset last night; we have had a series of pretty nice ones over the past few days. From IPS MeteoStar,… Continue reading Sunset was pretty good; raindrops tomorrow morning? In nine days as well?

“Peru’s Niño”

I thought you’d like to read this (Peru’s Niño), forwarded to me by Niño expert, Nate M.   Pretty incredible to read about what is happening down there in the wake of the Big Niño of 2015-16,  which really turned out to be more of a couch potato in terms of weather production in the Great… Continue reading “Peru’s Niño”

Catalina WY progress report; Cal WY update, too, since I grew up in Cal

I thought you’d like to see this: Doesn’t look promising for much rain here in Catalina in March, however.  No rain in sight through the next 10 days at least. Let’s check our 7 inches with what’s happening upwind, say, in CALIFORNIA, and see if there’s been any drought relief there, through February,  via the… Continue reading Catalina WY progress report; Cal WY update, too, since I grew up in Cal

Iridescence, jet streak Cirrus warn of overnight “middlin'” storm

I guess “billows” (“undulatus” in cloudspeak) two days ago in the late afternoon wasn’t enough of a sign that the weather was changing. Yesterday we had fast moving Cirrocumulus with rainbows in it, and as the sun was setting, “jet streak Cirrus”, a line of Cirrus clouds often seen in the very core of high… Continue reading Iridescence, jet streak Cirrus warn of overnight “middlin’” storm

Cold clouds and pretty, wintry scenes as long as they don’t last too long

What a gorgeous day yesterday was with deep blue skies dotted with Cumulus and one or two shallow Cumulonimbus, highlighted by our snow-capped Catalina Mountains.  After the brief warm up, more storms ahead for Catalina! Yesterday’s clouds Explanatory module below After the brief warm up ahead, still looks  “troughulent” and stormy in the SW as… Continue reading Cold clouds and pretty, wintry scenes as long as they don’t last too long

Colorful evening ends day with a colorful morning; a note on the great Cal rains of October 2016

Not much else to talk about, no rain of course;  what is that? But with so many colorful scenes yesterday, we can be partially sated by the  lives we lead here sans rain here.  October ended with a puny 0.01 inches in Sutherland Heights. Now, because I grew up in California and remain a little… Continue reading Colorful evening ends day with a colorful morning; a note on the great Cal rains of October 2016