In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Woke up at stupid o'clock to hear the wind whipping the trees and the wind=chimes clanking away. This is the back-end of the storm that blew through last night (downdrafts) which dumped ... according to my "rain gage" 2 and 15/16" of rain. There is a bit of a flood in the back garden area where one downspout empties. I had to empty the rain gage and set it up again because that's all it can hold! And its COLD outside too, by SoCal standards. I have to drive past one of the rivers later today, it'll be interesting to see whether the last two storms overwhelmed the rain retention infrastructures and if rainwater is being dumped into the ocean.
I've been putting peanuts out for the birds and squirrels (and prolly rats and coons) in advance of the storms. That Parking Lot Tree is surely getting a good soaking.
For all the weird stuff going on in the Pacific (The Blob having reasserted itself in the crook of N America, where USA and Canada meet) and the Arctic (massive ice melt) the weather here has been surprisingly normal ... classic, even.
As an interested layperson I think it all boils down to "storm tracks" - how far south "tongues" of arctic air extend south, since storms form at the interface of cold and warm air- and whether that interface sits over California. So far we've been very fortunate to have those storms track right over most of California. But since those tongues or lobes of cold air have been remaining pretty static (over months or years) next year the track may have shifted, and then we would be in for a long multi-season drought. When the Arctic warms considerably we might not have any tongues of air that are cold enough to reach this far south, and then SoCal will be in permanent drought. I'd sure hate to see that happen, there is a lot of unique wildlife here. (It's no just all godforsaken urban areas),
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Whoa! THAT'S a hefty shaker!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Vancouver Island experienced a 6.2 magnitude earthquake yesterday.
People have been warning about the subduction zone in the NW for quite a while. Also, the reactivation of Mt Ranier and the other volcanoes in the Cascades, and the resulting tsunami. Of course, one day these warnings will come true. I trust that not anytime soon.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
That is nothing over the Christmas week there have been at least 10 earthquakes off the west coast of Vancouver Island. Felt up in Port Hardy, Tofino and Haida Gwaii. One of them was even felt down around where I am. Not my city but Richmond and Vancouver itself.
Scientists say a cluster of quakes like that isn't unusual and nothing to panic about. I just thought it was interesting.
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Quote:HOLY JEEBUS! I bet the aftershocks are no small things either!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Vancouver Island experienced a 6.2 magnitude earthquake yesterday.
How are things by you? No buildings broke, I hope? Nothing fell down at your place?
https://www.straight.com/news/1340856/magnitude-62-earthquake-strikes-
christmas-eve-near-vancouver-island-after-six-seismic
I see it was part of a pattern of earthquakes. I hope nothing comes of it.
There was no damage done and no tsunami warnings posted either. That one and the others were out in the water.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Woke up at stupid o'clock to hear the wind whipping the trees and the wind=chimes clanking away. This is the back-end of the storm that blew through last night (downdrafts) which dumped ... according to my "rain gage" 2 and 15/16" of rain. There is a bit of a flood in the back garden area where one downspout empties. I had to empty the rain gage and set it up again because that's all it can hold! And its COLD outside too, by SoCal standards. I have to drive past one of the rivers later today, it'll be interesting to see whether the last two storms overwhelmed the rain retention infrastructures and if rainwater is being dumped into the ocean.
I've been putting peanuts out for the birds and squirrels (and prolly rats and coons) in advance of the storms. That Parking Lot Tree is surely getting a good soaking.
For all the weird stuff going on in the Pacific (The Blob having reasserted itself in the crook of N America, where USA and Canada meet) and the Arctic (massive ice melt) the weather here has been surprisingly normal ... classic, even.
As an interested layperson I think it all boils down to "storm tracks" - how far south "tongues" of arctic air extend south, since storms form at the interface of cold and warm air- and whether that interface sits over California. So far we've been very fortunate to have those storms track right over most of California. But since those tongues or lobes of cold air have been remaining pretty static (over months or years) next year the track may have shifted, and then we would be in for a long multi-season drought. When the Arctic warms considerably we might not have any tongues of air that are cold enough to reach this far south, and then SoCal will be in permanent drought. I'd sure hate to see that happen, there is a lot of unique wildlife here. (It's no just all godforsaken urban areas),
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
All is calm on the weather scale where I am but heading back into rain over tonight and into tomorrow.
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Out for a walk while it is dry.
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Rain today and I am out in a bit to go to work.
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As for SoCal, so far, so good.
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