Posted on 10/12/2009 11:40:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Here in the mountains it has been dropping down to 25 as of just last week. If it rains, we are going to get the first ice of the year, especially on parts of the road that do not get any sunlight in the wintertime.
We took a ride up to Trinidad this morning and there was not one boat tied up in the harbor!!! That is the first time in my 55 years up here that I have witnessed this. We could get 2 to 4 inches which means the Matole watershed will get 10 to 12 inches...
Redondo Beach will have great surf, maybe some flooding on the streets but no mudslides.
Does that mean they’re all out boating or are they running from the storm?
They either took them out of the water or moved them to the shelter of Humboldt Bay. Speaking of Hum Bay, PG&E is building a new gas fired power plant here and the Wasila engines from Italy were off loaded last week. They weigh 600,000 pounds and Bigge Drayage brought up special trailers for moving them the 3 miles to the site of the plant. I hope to see and photograph that move...
In Southern California, this early in the year, yes, it is amazing.
Well we are talking about late night and early morning low clouds
With a chance of fog, chance of showers into the afternoon
With variable high cloudiness and gusty winds
Gusty winds at times around the corner of sunset and Alvarado
Yeah I know things are tough all over
When the thunder storms start increasing over the southeast
And south central portions of my apartment, I get upset
And a line of thunderstorms was developing in the early morning
I was ahead of a slow moving cold front, cold blooded
With, with tornado watches issued shortly before noon Sunday
For the areas including, the western region of my mental health
And the northern portions of my ability to deal rationally with my
Disconcerted precarious emotional situation
It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar theater On a Saturday night
Flash flood watches covered the southern portion of my disposition
There was no severe weather well into the afternoon
Except for kind of a lone gust of wind in the bedroom
In a high pressure zone
Covering the eastern portion of a small suburban community
With a 1034 millibar high pressure zone
And a weak pressure ridge extending from my eyes down to my cheek
'Cause since you left me baby, put the vice grips on my mental health
Well the extended outlook for an indefinite period of time
Until you come back to me baby
It is high tonight, low tomorrow, and precipitation is expected
Thanks for the Ping, Ernest!
I miss the first big storm of the season. It meant the start of fall salmon fishing on the Elk & Sixes w/the jacks coming in first.
Spent most of the afternoon planting blubs before the ground is too hard to break thru here in Central Oregon.
what’s the link for that graphic??
I’m not convinced this will be a big rainmaker after all. Maybe orographic forcing hasn’t started yet, but the infrared shots from SSEC don’t impress. http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/geo/index.php?satellite=west&file=jpg
Melor Bring West Coast Storminess
Oct 12, 2009; 3:05 PM ET
A portion of the typhoon that affected Japan last week brings heavy rain and strong winds to the West Coast of the United States.
Winds are currently picking up here in Modesto. Temp around 60 and the clouds are moving NE at a pretty good clip. About 2 hours ago it was partially cloudy, but now there is a complete cloud cover.
Hopefully the rain will loosen the top layer of dirt on my Mustang convertible. :)
Nice evening down here by the Harbor....broken clouds ,...no wind...no stars seen either so the moisture level is high.
It started hitting here at about 5 am.
This is the earliest that we have had a tropical storm hit us big time. Most happen from late December thur March.
Even though the storm is coming basically from the west, our winds, locally, are from the SES. Often when that happens the front will just hover over our area until it can breakdown the front causing a wind that is probably an off shore wind on the coast 40-60 miles away.
When this happens and the front holds over our area, we can often get heavy rain, flash floods and sometimes flooding after the storm finally passes.
Our son is a cellar master for a local winery, and they have been busting butt since last Friday trying to get the Cab that is ready.
Yesterday I had a dental appointment and our dentist was on the verge of depression. He has about 20-30 tons of Cab still on the vine. The wineries which make Cab from his grapes, apparently only pay for the grapes when they harvest them. Another friend who blends a special red with merlot and other harvested red grapes with the late October Cabs, got 6 calls yesterday, begging him to hire people to pick the grapes. He can’t get anyone until Wednesday, hopefully that will not be too late.
We got hammered this morning, but it looks like it’s about to clear.
Think you however, are in for a full day of it, or days as the case may be.
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