I’m calling this one the “quiet storm,” and I was fully doubting its strength. It was clear skies at sunset as I skeptically tarped the tortoise hutch and hammock, and while it clouded up as the evening progressed, the rain didn’t start until well after we went to bed last night. And it landed seemingly …
Well, that was a surprise. Though it was drizzling all Saturday morning, and the overcast grew denser as it got dark last night, I wasn’t expecting the water that fell from the sky and I had to scramble while getting pretty nicely drenched to cover up the tortoise hutch and the hammock. This morning under …
Just by yesterday’s much-need storm itself, March distinguished itself from January and February by doubling the number of measurably wet days over those previous two months — and yesterday’s meant business. It was also a storm somewhat unique in that didn’t get started pouring until near the noon hour and then lasted well past 10 …
February 15 was the last date of measurable rainfall. January 23, before that. This once-a-month stuff is waaayheyhey below normal, but at least last night/today’s deluge brought down a full two inches according to the backyard precipitometer. Them meteorologicalists say there should be some more on the way tonight and tomorrow, but as of this …
January 23 was the date of our last significant rainfall, though in the past week or so there had been a couple of extremely under-achieving systems that skirted Los Angeles, neither of which delivered unto our Silver Lake backyard anything in the way of measurable wetness. Literally: when I checked both times there wasn’t enough …
Back east there’s a large rodent who gets all the glory this time of year for seeing its shadow and predicted six more weeks of bad weather. But here in Los Angeles, our remaining weeks of winter are decidedly less harsh. And since the local marmot population is relegated pretty much to individuals and/or zoological …
Helluva sunset this evening. Enough to get me up on the highest point of the roof and point my camera in its general direction. For anyone keeping score, those distant silhouetted protrusions about a third of the way in from the right are the skyscrapers of Century City, roughly 8.2 miles away as the crow …