Comments on: Fire & Floods Continue

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:46:06 +0000

You would think that someone would have figured out how to do that, although we now know that filling the atmosphere with greenhouse gases isn’t that way.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:39:20 +0000

Send rain. Here. Now. Tip the country…let the mid-West drain off over here to the left coast. We need it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:16:08 +0000

You’ll need top-minnows to keep them down. I can recommend the gambusia as a voracious eater of mosquito larvae.

By: LadyMin

LadyMin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:03:16 +0000

Rain, rain, go away! It’s raining again, and the 5 day forecast says T-Showers every day. I’m getting moldy. 😐

One of my garden projects this year was going to be a rain barrel. I’m put that off to the future. I think a mosquito abatement project would be more appropriate this year.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:49:47 +0000

I’m getting nervous about the fact that there isn’t even an area of interest in the Atlantic. The one storm we’ve had so far was really a piece of a storm that started in the Pacific and came East.

Weird.

As they used to say in old movies:

“It’s quiet out there.”

“Yep, too quiet…”

just before the bad guys attacked.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:36:39 +0000

We currently have gale force winds. It’s very disconcerting when a solid double-brick house shakes in an area that never had winds like this before. The weather report said this is the warmest July ever recorded here, with the lowest rainfall.

Weather is screwed everywhere. *shrug*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:25 +0000

One of the oddest things about living in San Diego county is that they didn’t have a thunderstorm the entire decade I lived there.

I was at the Defense Language in Monterey twice, and don’t remember a day that I didn’t take a jacket with me, and now they are having temperatures in the 90s.

Everything is happening earlier, and is more intense.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:45:08 +0000

…what was so rare about this massive dry lightning event was that it came this time of year. Dry lightning isn’t particularly rare in NoCal and Orygun/Washington east of the Cascades, but it usually happens in August, not June.

I was just thinking the other night as I was headed home from work that a sure sign that summer is finally here was the convoy of 10 tractor-trailer rigs and assorted support vehicles and smaller utility trailers I met headed south on U.S. 97 on their way to set up a fire camp somewhere in NoCal…