What’s New and What’s Old and What I’m Going To Do….

Really been slacking off with the blogs. This morning hearing the news I thought I’d add “Things about the Weather.” Since know on covers what they think climate change is. Why aren’t people in the news looking at the unusual freak storms and flooding happening while it also is drought in other areas? It really seems to stick out looking back at everything that is going on. Last year in this area we set a record for the amount of days over 100 degrees. That was three weeks of days over a 100 degrees. Who comes up with these days to measure? I know those days over 100 degrees really sucked the life out of me and I think I past out a couple times standing up. There’s no hiding from the heat. I had two small trees burn up in the buckets they were in. The roots got too hot and toasted the little trees. I was watering them in the mornings for 20 minutes. Now we are on restricted watering because of the drought here. I need to get the sprinklers going, the valves are stuck closed. I haven’t checked the wiring yet.

Like the time a few years ago in Texas it was raining for 60 days and night. Totally Biblical for a state of deniers of Climate Change and Global Warming. Then came the drought for several years and they had to sell most of their cattle because they couldn’t afford to feed the cattle.

There was Katrina that hit New Orleans and flooded out the city. The weather people were on the fence whether it was climate change or global warming that made such a large storm.

Super Storm Sandy in New York. That was a perfect storm. At the time I believe it was two weather fronts merging together forming Super Storm Sandy. Wonder how many more storms will we be naming Super Storm? That was the first and I’m sure there will be many more.

The Balkans, it rains three months worth of rain in three days. That’s going on right now but no one is covering the storm since it’s one of those out there little countries. A majority of the land mass is under water. They don’t have any weather reporters standing in the water there to show people there it wet, not like the minor storms here.

Drought are happening around the world. There are also rain fall of biblical proportions happening around the world also. Funny how you can have so much rain and so much dry at the same time. Last winter we had massive amounts of cold in the midwest to north east. Snow and freezing cold weather in southern states like Florida.

So this is the first post looking back at things I’ve remembered about freak weather. Still sticks with me seeing a guy looking at the damage of tornadoes and saying the weather has been real freaky lately. Oh, there was a record number of tornadoes this year so far in the mid country and southern states. States that never have tornadoes are getting them. Just amazing. Well that’s it for this morning.

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Not more rain :-(

Latest weather map or prediction from the soothsayers says it’s going to rain some more. Was suppose to rain real heavy Monday and Tuesday through till this next storm but it’s been sunny the last two days with no rain. Monday and Tuesday it just dripped. I’ve went outside to see the fresh made creeks the rain made across the yard. The new deposition of dirt in the field. Good thing there were weeds there to hold the dirt in place.

Statement as of 3:04 PM PST on December 24, 2010

Special Weather Statement

... Rain and snow will impact travel this Holiday weekend... A low pressure system over the Pacific will spread more rain and snow across the interior Saturday and Saturday night. Snow will become steady above 4500 feet late Saturday morning along the coastal range and over Shasta County by early afternoon. Snow will move into the mountains surrounding the Burney Basin by late Saturday afternoon.  At this time it looks like the Central Valley will see 6 to 9 hours of steady rainfall... mainly Saturday afternoon through the evening hours. Rainfall amounts will range between three quarters of an inch to an inch of rain for the Central Valley with similar amounts expected for the foothills. Periods of moderate to heavy snow are possible over the higher peaks of the coastal mountains Saturday afternoon and evening. Snow levels will drop to 2500 to 3500 feet early Sunday morning along the coastal range and over Shasta County as snow tapers off to scattered snow showers but not much accumulation is expected at those levels. South to southwest wind gusts in excess of 45 mph may cause reduced visibility over mountain passes such as Mendocino Pass Saturday night. Travelers heading north on Interstate 5 may encounter winter weather Sunday morning as they head north of Sims. Hazardous back country traveling conditions may exist Sunday. If you plan to travel this Holiday weekend... be prepared for unsettled weather. If traveling to the mountains... carry tire chains and
emergency supplies and check the latest weather and Road reports before departure.

What the clouds look like right now. No rain just clouds. Ground clouds or close to it.

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