Slow News Day
They had their parade this evening, and with luck, the Local Puppy Trainer will shed some light on what was going on at the end of the parade in the street north of my Mother’s house. I finished my travels early so I wouldn’t have to deal with the traffic jams.
I was keeping an eye on Eastern Pacific Hurricane Barbara. It went from a tropical depression to a Category 1 hurricane in less that 24 hours, and then came ashore in the Bay of Tehuantepec in Mexico’s Chiapas state. This morning it had transited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in enter the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical depression, but the wind shear in the Gulf took it apart. It was a small storm but it dumped more than 16 inches of rain in the mountains of Mexico.
They have the White Fire near Santa Barbara contained and are doing mop up operations, while we are mopping up multiple wildfires in my area. We have had over a week of warm dry weather, and the pine forests in the area are getting tinder dry. There are thunderstorms in the forecast, but no rain yet. Fire officials are hoping that they won’t get light rains with the thunderstorms because that often produces smoldering fires in the forest. Lightning strikes ignite the duff on the floor, but it doesn’t burst into flame because it is damp. Then, at some point it dries out, and a wildfire springs to life.
