Going to be a bad fire year. All the moisture will cause massive under growth. Then become thick tinder come July or sooner
I hope CalFire is ready
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Posts: 6334 | Location: New Orleans...outside the levees, fishing in the Rigolets | Registered: October 11, 2009
Well, I’m sitting here in the dark wondering how long my outage will be. Some have gone for days and even weeks. A heavy squall just rolled through and blew us out.
Of course not! I have my candle lantern fired up, a Surefire in my hand. Already burnt through first set of batteries. Also my emergency power supply is ready for recharging devices.
The wind today was nuts. Whitecaps in the bay. Ferry service stopped. Trees down. Windows falling out of skyscrapers. The office, way up in the sky, sounded like it was under train tracks due to the wind whipping around the building and rattling everything. Elevators went goofy due to the seismic sensors getting moved just enough. Briefly lost power at home mid afternoon. Lines are down all over and there aren’t enough fire trucks and utility guys to respond. Good times.
Posts: 4379 | Location: Peoples Republic of Berkeley | Registered: June 12, 2008
Originally posted by kkina: Of course not! I have my candle lantern fired up, a Surefire in my hand. Already burnt through first set of batteries. Also my emergency power supply is ready for recharging devices.
^Yes, the power came back after about 4-1/2 hours. I had been right in the middle of a small woodworking project. Had to finish the last hole with a hand-chuck and a flashlight.
Some 200,000 lost power in the Bay Area last night. This latest onslaught was supposed to mostly hit southern CA, but we definitely got our share yesterday.
On our news I saw all that wind and rain in SF. Some woman with an umbrella turned inside-out. My first thought was "The sidewalks are finally getting a good scrubbing."
Silver linings and all...
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Posts: 8292 | Location: Utah | Registered: December 18, 2008
We had a good thunderstorm yesterday here in Modesto with constant thunder and some great downpours. One of the storms last week really put on a good lightning show.
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Posts: 6543 | Location: Modesto, CA | Registered: January 27, 2005
My first thought was "The sidewalks are finally getting a good scrubbing."
God has to flush the toilet once in a while.
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Posts: 9424 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
Another overturned big rig yesterday, this time on the SF Bay Bridge. I think that's the 3rd one this year, all different bridges in the Bay Area. Getting hard to keep track.
Originally posted by GWbiker: Rain? Did someone say rain?
We could use some rain as we're in the desert.
Whereabouts are you? We’ve had rain on and off since Monday night.
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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL: Category 4 I thought was reserved for Hurricanes with winds from 130-156. Atmospheric river???
An c, or a weather system that moves high concentrations of water vapor outside of the tropics, could on Tuesday bring up to 1 to 3 inches of rain to the coastal areas, with higher elevations receiving upward of 3 to 5 inches, the National Weather Service told CBS San Francisco. The atmospheric river could be as strong as a Category 4, with a scale that tops out a 5.
Really?? Pure sensationalism.
No, atmospheric rivers are not sensationalism. They just usually hit right HERE where no one lives, and you don't hear about on "the news". We have a NOAA weather station and satellite.
Combined with the orographic effect (mountains), it averages to 168 inches of rain per year (up to 40 inches/month during wet season), but the rain and storms went cardinal South this year.
In winter of 2007, a storm came through that knocked out all wind gauges along the Olympic coast, except for in Westport, Washington where a wind speed of 133 MPH was recorded. The power was out 9 days and nights, and my water and septic system run off electricity. Trees were falling and snapping everywhere. That storm led to the funding of the study that helped lead to the term "atmospheric river".
So, my sympathy and understanding to the SIGforum members in California who experienced our winter this year. I think it is rather natural.
Originally posted by rh: No, atmospheric rivers are not sensationalism. They just usually hit right HERE where no one lives, and you don't hear about on "the news". We have a NOAA weather station and satellite.
Combined with the orographic effect (mountains), it averages to 168 inches of rain per year (up to 40 inches/month during wet season), but the rain and storms went cardinal South this year.
So, my sympathy and understanding to the SIGforum members in California who experienced our winter this year. I think it is rather natural.
Thank you.
Intellectually I knew that this weather couldn't be that unique, but I had no idea where it had been making landfall previously.
I love the greenery when driving through the PNW and fog/wet doesn't bother me as I grew up in San Francisco...but this does give me a bit of pause when looking for places along to coast to visit
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Posts: 14301 | Location: northern california | Registered: February 07, 2003
A big part of any discussion regarding the weather is creating and using catchy names. The news is very good at creating common usage terms and labels, thus Rain Train, Atmospheric River, Pineapple Express hits the right note to get people's attention if not ratchet up the anxiety and urgency. El Nino and La Nina were commonly used but, the majority of people couldn't explain what any of it meant but, they were quick toss those names around.
PAY ATTENTION
WATCH THIS
SO UNUSUAL
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While this Winter has been unusual in the intensity and volume of rain/snowfall, it is a return to 'normalcy'. California has had drought conditions for 8 of the last 12 years, thus it's very easy for a generation to view the current conditions as biblically unusual and beyond whatever they've experienced. Instead you look back at weather readings over the last 100-years and such weather intensity and concentration usually occurs every 8-10 years, flooding in low-laying areas aren't uncommon.
Posts: 15255 | Location: Wine Country | Registered: September 20, 2000
Originally posted by kkina: Of course not! I have my candle lantern fired up, a Surefire in my hand. Already burnt through first set of batteries. Also my emergency power supply is ready for recharging devices.
Didn't you get solar for your home, or was that someone else in NorCal that was doing that.
Posts: 24725 | Location: Gunshine State | Registered: November 07, 2008
Originally posted by kkina: ^Yes, the power came back after about 4-1/2 hours. I had been right in the middle of a small woodworking project. Had to finish the last hole with a hand-chuck and a flashlight.
Some 200,000 lost power in the Bay Area last night. This latest onslaught was supposed to mostly hit southern CA, but we definitely got our share yesterday.
Pick up a couple of these inflatable solar lanterns. Easy to use and not as sooty as candle lanterns....I have't used one of those since the 80's They're waterproof so, take it in shower when power is out and doesn't generate heat like a candle, place it anywhere or, hang.
Posts: 15255 | Location: Wine Country | Registered: September 20, 2000
