Another month of no winter.

The week of 10/13 brought some low pressure systems our way, but they just didn't look very threatening. The 7 day forecast looked about the same.

On Monday the 13th, PM, some nice cirrus... 

 

By Tuesday morning, it starts to darken, but i am not reaching for the umbrella yet.

By Tues. PM, it looks darker. The week continued to be an evolving thing, ever changing, sometimes interesting, sometimes blah.

Here's a potpourri:

There's poetry aplenty above, but you have to be open to it.

Finally 10/24-25, it rained over night, nothing major, partly cloudy skies by Sat 9AM.

Thursday 10/30 something was 'sposed to be headed this way. I couldn't see that happening, but when i woke at 2 AM 10/31 the street was wet... but that was about it.
None of this will put a dent in the drought.

Links for the month? check this one out, a new cloud type:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2014/10/10/undulatus_asperatus_a_new_cloud_type.html

Here's a few good general info links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
Long, informative.

"In meteorology, a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body."  After this, it gets incredibly complicated.

This is a bit simpler:
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/%28Gh%29/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml

http://www.clouds-online.com/

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/clouds/cloud-names-classifications
You can download a PDF file
"Cloud types for observers Cloud types for observers (PDF, 4 MB)  guide."

Weather 101 A tutorial on cloud types:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMagDRCpJ14

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/find-a-cloud/#p=1&i=0

This one is rather simplistic, but sometimes that's OK:
http://www.slideshare.net/jdlowe78/cloud-formation-28383426

RE: the drought (which is not going away anytime soon):

http://mashable.com/2014/10/16/7-underwater-secrets-found-in-dried-out-california-lakes/

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/seven_ways_california_might_change_in_a_72year_drought.php

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1030249-14-california-communities-now-on-verge-of-waterless-ness-mass-migration-out-of-california-seems-imminent/?sidebar=todaysheadline

http://theweek.com/article/index/269602/how-californias-central-valley-went-from-breadbasket-to-wasteland

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/08/25/california-drought-7-gifs

What I want to see on the western horizon heading in from the Pacific is something like this:

No, I am not holding my breath.

But I'll be back next month, come hell or high water as the saying goes.