Archive for August, 2009

> BREAKING NEW HEADLINES: STATION FIRE DOUBLES FROM 35, 000 TO 85,000 ACRES OVERNIGHT AS COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE LOS ANGELES BASIN IS THREATENED AS INFERNO NEARS TRANMITTERS ON TOP OF MT WILSON! Lack of wind flow throughout the area is creating more buil-up of smoke into the atmosphere and hampering firefighting efforts. Intense heat and […]

> La Canada Flintridge fire(Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)A brush fire above La Canada Flintridge moves down a canyon toward Angeles Crest Highway just before midnight Thursday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / August 29, 2009)Flames from the Station fire sweep across Angeles Crest Highway. Station fire(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / […]

>Danny, now an Extra Tropical rainstorm will bring blustery rains with as much as 2-6 inches expected but this like many storms that form in the region it did, did not manage to do anything in the sense of become a strong storm or hurricane. Too much shear and dry air was a prohibiting factor […]

>Firefighters battle the Station fire(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / August 27, 2009)U.S. Forest Service firefighters race to battle the Station fire as it jumps Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest. The blaze spread Thursday as canyon winds whipped flames into dry brush. Currently as of 2.15am Pacific Time and 4.15am Central […]

> http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=rss&traveler=0&article=3 FROM ACCUWEATHER http://www.accuweather.com/news-center.asp Flames from a brush fire glow from a distance behind a home on Baytree Drive in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., Friday. About 500 homes in La Canada Flintridge, a suburb just 12 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, also were ordered evacuated late Thursday as flames made their way slowly […]

>Ok, many meteorologists out there are talking about Danny’s structure, where’s his center? Will he be fully tropical or a part of him either baroclinic or of a hybrid nature.This is in part relation to my post yesterday regarding many storms that form east of the Bahamas or nearer the Southeast Atlantic coast never gets […]

> Wetter-Than-Average Summer for Great BritainUpdated: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:48 PM Article by AccuWeather.comhttp://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=rss&traveler=0&article=8Another round of rain and wind is pushing through the United Kingdom, prompting the U.K. Meteorology Office to issue flood alerts for some rivers, including the Kent, Eden and Cocker early today. Like the Northeast United States, the United Kingdom has […]

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>It’s getting interesting when you step back from the picture and look at what’s happening here. The pattern in place is one to be concerned about if you reside anywhere from Florida to Maine, simply because after Bill and it’s close call on New England, I fear as the summer pregresses and the hurricane season […]

>Tropical Storm Danny is born as expected and likely to become the second hurricane of 2009 as it pushes west, northwest and gives East Coast residents the jitters.My sceptisism with Danny is that for a few years now and likely for many years, it seems that storms that form and take aim at the Carolinas […]