I worked from home yesterday by the grace of my boss who took mercy on me in the wake of about three hours of work getting destroyed Monday night when a power burp to the building browned out my computer and rather than run crying from my office I manned up and stayed until after …
(click for the bigger picture) The long afternoon’s worth of rain had passed before nightfall, and when I left work near 7 p.m. I was eager to see what increase there might be to Ballona Creek’s water level. The good news is it wasn’t enough to warrant the locking of the bikeway entrance gates. The …
And on what’s expected to have been the last day of this week-long series of storms over Los Angeles, I measured an additional 0.375 inches, bringing the total accumulation to 2.71875 inches. And for my next trick I will measure the amounts that evaporate. Just kidding. The end.
Yeah, yeah. I know the storm has wreaked havoc in other areas, and last night put on quite a show with heavy downpours, huge lightning and a touch of the hail as I was driving home in it, but in terms of my locations in the city during these past four days, I haven’t been …
Well, yesterday was bigger than the day before, but both combined just barely topped Monday’s rainfall total. All in for yesterday: 0.6875 inches for a three-day accumulation of 1.90625 inches. Note: Marker lines are approximations of the previous day’s rainfall. Calculations are made based on differences measured between photographs, not lines.
Given the increased intensity of Tuesday’s meteorological activity, I was expecting to find a substantial amount of rainfall added to yesterday’s. Nope. This morning I found only 0.25 inches had been captured, bringing the two-day precipitation total for the corner of our front yard in the 90026 to: 1.21875.
With storms lined up and on approach to Los Angeles like a series of jumbojets coming in for landings at LAX, of course I placed my trusty high-tech Precipitation Collection Apparatus in prime position to accumulate a sample measurement of the rainfall coming down on our Silver Lake house in the 90026. In roughly the …