The last couple of days it has been 105-110 in the East Bay.

Early this morning I woke up to major thunder lightning and rain.

Now we have a bunch of fires going with the August dry grass in the hills.

We just don't usually get weather like this out here...

As sticky as it is outside I thought I was in Texas or something ...I wish.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/new...nd-bay-area/2345426/

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Keep sending us your crazy ass residents and we will keep sending you our crazy ass weather....fair is fair

Add the additional aggravation of power outages (both scheduled rolling outages to reduce fire danger, and knockouts directly from the storms). There's one right now in San Mateo, a couple miles from me.

A lot of earthquake activity, too. And the numerous SoCal wildfires.

Storms, quakes, pestilence,... Yeah, it's getting Biblical out here.

There was a boom right about 5am that startled me awake. Wasn’t getting back to sleep after that adrenaline rush. Turns out there was a lightning strike just a few blocks from me and it was LOUD. Then the next few hours of dealing with wigged out dogs every time the next thunderclap hit.

My wife loves the heat and humidity of south so she was out on the patio the entire time enjoying the weather.

^I think I heard that boom. Well, I certainly heard a loud boom this morning about that time. I knew they predicted thunderstorms for today so wasn't too surprised, but still.

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Originally posted by kkina:
Add the additional aggravation of power outages (both scheduled rolling outages to reduce fire danger, and knockouts directly from the storms). There's one right now in San Mateo, a couple miles from me.

A lot of earthquake activity, too. And the numerous SoCal wildfires.

Storms, quakes, pestilence,... Yeah, it's getting Biblical out here.

It seems fitting that the apocalypse would start in SF.

Stay safe and hunker down.

Jim

Lightning and thunder are a bit rare in Silicon Valley any time of the year. Even more rare in Aug.

I am glad my wake up hit at 4:00 this morning was lightning and thunder, not a 7.0 quake.

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. . . My wife loves the heat and humidity of south so she was out on the patio the entire time enjoying the weather.

Tell your wife she can have a Florida summer at home anytime of year. Put your dishwasher on a pots 'n pans cycle, half way through, open the door and stick your head in.

It has been hours and the dog still will not come out from under the bed.

The grid operator just announced probable rolling blackouts tonight. Due to the heat wave overtaxing the power grid.

Power was out at the Main street area this Morning, so we had to go somewhere else for Breakfast today.

First world problems

All time record for highest recorded temperature on earth possibly set today in Death Valley... Temperature Record

Just got back from the Sierra's after cooling down in a cold Alpine lake...good grief.

111 driving through Stockton and Lodi, humidity continued to go up closer to the coast, lighting rolling through....its monsoon season.

Rolling blackouts are due to lack of generation capacity. Nuke plants shut down are not even close to being replaced with solar. Sun and wind do not equal base load capacity...

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Rolling blackouts are due to lack of generation capacity. Nuke plants shut down are not even close to being replaced with solar. Sun and wind do not equal base load capacity...

I am sure I have posted this on the Forum before.

Ivanpah Solar Power in SoCal was, maybe still is, the largest solar power plant in the US (to save the planet from evil fossil fuels). But once in operation, it delivered only 2/3 of the promised electricity, meaning the cost per watt/hour was 50% more than planned. And, to deliver power when there was not sufficient sun, they had natural gas powered generators, which emitted enough CO2 that Ivanpah had to register as a gross polluter.

Also, there were lawsuits that the 3500 acres of solar panels were harming the local plant and animal life (ie, screwing up the environment).

But as CA Gov Newsom has said, the nation and the world are looking to CA to lead the way.

They could fire up that last nuclear plant again, right?

Neither unit one nor unit two at Diablo has been shutdown yet, but it isn’t far off. They’ll shut when their licenses expire, one in 2024 and the other in 2025 if I remember correctly.

Mighty strange weather. I haven't lived here long, but the sky was orange when I got up. Next door posts show trees that got pulverized by lightning. Big trees.

Now it's been fire smoke ever since. Fun.

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But as CA Gov Newsom has said, the nation and the world are looking to CA to lead the way.

Not today. Little Gavin actually admits "green energy" fails to meet the needs of California.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state had to “sober up” about the fact that renewable energy sources had failed to provide enough power for the state at peak demand, and needed “backup” and “insurance” from other sources.

Newsom addressed journalists and the public in the midst of ongoing electricity blackouts that began on Friday, as hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers in northern and central California lost power.

No shit Sherlock
https://www.breitbart.com/envi...ewable-energy-flaws/

^^^^^^^^
I am quite sure Gov Newsom and other uppers in gov't won't have THEIR electricity cut off.

Map of evacuation areas.

Not like I have any love for PG&E or any of the other utilities (SCE and SDG&E) but, nobody has held the state Public Utilities Commission's feet to the fire, whom instructed PG&E, to build 'renewables/green energy' thus, they rubber stamped on every project, despite the fact that PG&E has told the PUC their equipment was in need of maintenance and updating. Welp, we got 2018 and 2019 fires largely blamed on equipment/maintenance failures which wiped out a handful of communities, many deaths, and etched a new season in the calendar along with rioting, flooding, and heat.