Some nice cirrus. Nothing to get excited about. But nice, anyway.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/arizona_water_shortages_loom_the_state_prepares_for_rationing_as_lake_mead.html
5/11
Today, the story is... wind! Enough to almost knock-me-over type wind!
The wind can cleanse all.
5/12
Forecast calls for some possible rain on thursday, 'possible' and 'scattered' being the operative words.
Can you see it from this pac sat image? I sure don't.
El Nino just may be back.......
El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean that were first identified in March are strengthening, federal scientists said Thursday, renewing hope that the next winter could be a long-awaited wet one for California.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/1780/article/p2p-83538215/
El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean that were first identified in March are strengthening, federal scientists said Thursday, renewing hope that the next winter could be a long-awaited wet one for California.
I ain't holding my breath. Mother nature is a fickle bitch. I'll believe it when i look out my apt window and know I have to put on ALL my rain gear. Then, and only then.
Owens Valley - no water for LA
L.A. getting no Owens Valley runoff for first time since 1913
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83544685/
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'Substantial' El Nino event predicted
By Helen Briggs
BBC Environment Correspondent
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32704506
It's been predicted in a large number of other articles on the net I've seen
Bring it ON!
So to keep you entertained with this blog in the meantime...
How 'bout a tangent?? Sure, why not. Here goes.
That big ol' sun!
(Excuse me (but not much) if i sound like Carl Sagan.)
We are just a speck of dust in the cosmos, we exist thanks to the sun, 93 million miles away, we live in a zone close enough to be warmed - but not toasted - by it, not so far away as to be left out, & be completely frozen. Earth spins, a warming and cooling cycle that moderates the solar energy, and creates our weather.
We take it all for granted, perhaps others know better. Birds are the descendants of dinosaurs, they may well have an ancient memory of the result of a massive darkening thanks to an asteroid impact and the debris it blew into the atmosphere that darkened the sky for... a long time. A very long time. Perhaps the reason they chirp twitter and sing so wildly as the sun rises is that they are celebrating the return of light, and warmth once again, on a regular 24 hour cycle basis.
They are much more thankful than we are. Their memories are long - ours? short.
In recent news? earthquakes in Nepal. Shouldn't be a surprise. According to John McPhee the highest rocks in the Himalayas, on the top of Mount Everest, are Marine shale. *MARINE* shale.
Ocean sediment heaved up almost 30,000 feet. Now that's some kind of awesome power the earth's geological tectonic plates lay on us. Most unpredictably. At least by our standards. But our standards are just ours, and subject to great debate and revision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
"The enormous effect of the Sun on the Earth has been recognized since prehistoric times, and the Sun has been regarded by some cultures as a deity. Earth's movement around the Sun is the basis of the solar calendar, which is the predominant calendar in use today"
This is a fascinating page, you should definitely check out. You might not understand a lot of it ( i didn't), but it's good to stretch your brain out a bit now and then. And not just with some new technological gadget. Dial that shit down a bit and *read*, at length.
A fitting end to this post:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-bright-side-of-13-years-of-clouds-in-1-map/
http://www.livescience.com/50541-stunning-night-sky-images-from-the-american-desert.html
Oh, and a few photos too.
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