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>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 / […]

>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 […]