Category: Weather
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Another Kind of Track Meet
I haven’t posted in 44 days. Please don’t read into the delay. Instead, I want to briefly discuss a track meet I attended yesterday at a high school in Sacramento. I took photos of Aidan, my grandson and an eighth-grader who is long jumper and sprinter. The photos were fine. Aidan did well. But the…
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Surrounded
The sky over Sacramento was dotted with rain clouds yesterday that brought snow to the nearby Sierras but barely a sprinkle to the city. The drought continues with no rain forecasted in the coming days for Sacramento.
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Reconsider…Monday
A drizzle has wet the roads. The autumn leaves still shine. Fresh brewed coffee beckons me to reconsider big plans for this Monday–well, actually I had no plans.
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Short Break, Then More Rain
Yesterday’s rainfall in Sacramento was the most in recorded history–five inches! It’s overcast now with no rain, but some is predicted for 11 a.m. . What complicated matters was that trees are losing their leaves, so gutters on roof tops and roads were often clogged with autumn colors.
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Hints of Fall
I was in the Sierras this past weekend where the aspen were starting to turn a shimmering yellow. Next weekend should be a full blast of color.
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What the West Coast Needs…A Downpour
Yesterday there was a 15% chance for rain in the Sierras in mid-afternoon. You could walk between the raindrops without getting wet until 2:48 p.m.–that’s when the downpour began. I looked out the window as if oil had been struck. Buckets of rain for nearly 30 minutes. Okay, it’s not the end of the drought,…
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