Two day’s after the first rain of 2012 comes the second storm of the year. Expected by meteorologists to pack a bigger wallop across the region than Saturday’s, it did not — at least not in our backyard according to our precipitometer, which registered 1 7/8ths of an inch (1.875″) as of 5 p.m. under …
Couple of rainfall firsts with this storm that started sometime last night: It’s the first of 2012 and the first in more than five unusually dry weeks — 37 days to be exact — since a freak cell rolled over our house on December 15 and caught me by surprise in dropping 0.3125 inches. At …
If you were in the vicinity of Silver Lake about 4 p.m. today did this Vicious Little Storm Cell That Cried blindside you, too? Dang! Sure, it grew overcast and colder and a little lightning-and-thundery a few minutes before the skies opened up, but who knew they’d open up with such a vengeance!? And then …
Forecast estimates fluctuated between yesterday’s storm dropping somewhere between a quarter- to half-inch of rain in the Los Angeles basin, and I saw a report on TV last night that in the end about two-thirds of an inch was recorded downtown. As has been the case with every storm that’s landed this fall, the total …
Yeah, that one. The one I placed up there because I’m a nut who enjoyed the awesome view of the neighborhood and beyond. Great place to kick back, enjoy a beer maybe a ceegar and some sunshine and the city. Well, after last night’s winds, it’s not on the roof anymore — not because I …
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Sure, the rain started falling last night before I turned in, but it must’ve stopped before I fell asleep because this morning the ground was practically dry and there was juuust barely 1/8th of an inch captured in the trusty backyard precipitometer. But a few hours later the skies opened up and stayed open, and …
With various meteorologists predicting half-inch rainfall totals from this storm, I figured that would mean I would find a waterline around the one-inch mark in my backyard precipitometer this morning. But it seems this overnight system proved to be an under-achiever. Still, 0.50 inches ain’t nothing to dismiss, and with it that brings our season’s …