Archive for 2009

>Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times / September 4, 2009The Station fire has charred about a quarter of the Angeles National Forest, forcing it to close indefinitely. Some of Los Angeles County’s most popular trails, campgrounds and picnic areas, including Mill Creek Summit, have been destroyed by the Station fire, now 49% contained. Many of […]

>I’ll be honest with you, I am sick and tired of looking at low clouds, cold breezes and rain hitting my windshield. Unless you live in Cape Race, Newfoundland or Alaska’s Aleutians you don’t know just how depressing it can be to experience LITERALLY weeks of gloomy, cold damp days. Sure, in mid-winter it’s bad […]

>Firstly, Erika is going nowhere and may never do anything. Like Danny, like Ana, they either fizzled or became rainstorms. I need to watch as Erika may become a player later, however the Atlantic basin season is shutting down and anything that pops now will be home brewed spins that erupt off frontal systems that […]

>Aerial view of Station fire(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times / August 31, 2009)Smoke from the Station fire over the Angeles National Forest as seen from a helicopter. La Crescenta, Sept 1. Courtesy of LA Times. According to this article written yesterday on the LA Times website. The Station Fire burning in the Angeles National […]

>Sorry this is a little long winded!! Now that we’re steadily creeping our way into September, this is usually a time when I ask myself, when’s our first frost going to be? Back on September 18th, 2007 I photographed frost that had formed during the overnight hours on cars, house roofs and grassy surfaces. Steam […]

> Image and Information Source http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=rss&traveler=0&article=8 Record August Rainfall Splashes ScotlandUpdated: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 5:00 PMWaves of rainfall spread over the month of August have led to the rewriting of weather record books in Scotland. Hit hard by the record-setting cloudbursts was the south west of Scotland. In the district of Dumfries and Galloway, […]

>Tropical Storm Erika is now born and appears to be heading north of the Caribbean Is. for the time being, perhaps taking a path towards the Bahamas. This hurricane season for me is very similar to 2006 in both it’s prohibiting factors with dry air, stronger easterly trades and the recurving of systems as the […]

> Flames in La Crescenta(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)A U.S. Forest Service firefighter battles flames in La Crescenta. Cloudiest summer on record for Chicago and 60s for highs the past week is a first to end August according to Meteorologist Tom Skilling of WGN-TV, Chicago. A borderline cat-5 Jimena set to strike western Baja […]

> 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 / […]