I would hate to be camping up the mountains during this mess. The passes must be a real mess, as well as the road to Reno.

Looking at the radar and the wind, it looks a lot like a tropical storm coming ashore around San Francisco. The rain extends into Nevada, and there is a possible tornado South of Medford, Oregon. There a definite pockets of really heavy rains and thunderstorms in the system, but it looks like it is moving quickly ashore.

The problem is that California really needs a week of steady, light to moderate rains, to really affect the drought conditions in any meaningful way, but this should extinguish the smoldering fires in the National forests in the area, and add some snow pack.

I’m getting a nice breeze blowing across me as I sit here in front of the patio door. Thing is, the patio door is closed (!!!). But nothing anywhere near what even the lightest near-miss by a hurricane produces — while the wind is blowing, the rain is fairly light, as vs. torrential.

Will always remember the time I lived up in San Francisco and the rain and winds were so bad, a good portion of the redwood trees in Golden Gate park were toppled. Now THAT was a storm season.

However, I do live in the fire area. Trying to dig out some hiking shoes for mud going.
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I’ve been watching it for a while, and it has held together surprisingly well over a very long trip on the Japanese Current.