Updates
  • Out/pneumonia Pardon the interruption again, folks. John had been coughing more and more frequently lately. Difficult breathing yesterday resulted in an ambulance ride to the local…
  • May 8, 2024 report May 8, 2024 Summary  High pressure aloft is  located 500 miles off the northern California coast. Low pressure is centered over Wyoming and the Dakotas…
  • May 6, 2024 report May 6, 2024 Summary  An elongated trough of low pressure extends from the Gulf of Alaska to the Pacific Northwest while high pressure is setting…
  • May 4, 2024 report May 4, 2024 Summary  A low pressure center is off the coast of the Pacific Northwest this morning. This low will move southwestward into northern…
  • May 2, 2024 report May 2, 2024 Summary  upper level high pressure is upwelling ahead of a low pressure system located in the northeast Pacific. This will drive temperatures…

Health Update

I want to give you an  explanation of   where I’m at.  I had my third dose of chemo at the end of July.  Suffice it to say it flattened me.  Still haven’t gotten a true reading on where I’m at.   Hopefully I’ll find out later this month.  All I know is that every time they…

July 27, 2021/report

There  will  be no  report  tomorrow   as John  will be  undergoing  his third  round  of   chemo.   Following  this round will  be  a series  of tests  to  determine  how well the   tumor   is responding.     We’ll  keep  you posted!       July  27, 2021 Northern California is experiencing what we had yesterday.     Heavy   cloud   cover has  …

July 26, 2021/report

July 24, 2021 A considerable amount of monsoonal moisture is working through just north of a weak upper air disturbance located just north of San Diego.  Doppler radar indicates a considerable amount of shower activity is over and off the southern  California coast.  Models project the disturbance will move northwestward through central California.  There is…

July 25, 2021/update

July 25, 2021 A massive area of upper level high pressure stretches from California on the west to roughly the Mississippi River on the east.  Embedded within this high is a weak upper low which is currently straddling the Mexico/California border.  The low has picked up a great deal of monsoonal moisture and will soon…

July 24, 2021/report

July 24, 2021 Numerous showers and thunderstorms continue to pound parts of Arizona this morning.  some of these showers have made it across the Colorado River near Needles.  As the upper high builds westward and  a weak upper air disturbance moves from east to west through southern Arizona, scattered showers and thunderstorms will spread northward…

July 23, 2021/report

July 23, 2021 Through Saturday, the winds aloft over the valley will remain out of the south/southwest.  To illustrate what’s going on in the upper atmosphere, the balloon sounding above San Diego shows a southeast flow while over Oakland, the winds aloft are out of the southwest.  This is due to the clockwise rotation around…

July 22, 2021/report

July 22, 2021 It seems that a lot of prayers are being answered over the Desert Southwest and the Rocky Mountain region.  A very active monsoon season continues as virtually 80% of the state of Arizona is under a flash flood watch.  Hopefully for water storage, this will be the summer we have been waiting…

July 21, 2021/report

July 21, 2021 Even though the marine layer is roughly 1,200 feet deep at Monterey, there is enough of an onshore flow to allow modified marine air into the northern half of the valley.  Currently, winds at Pacheco Pass are out of the west at 14 MPH, gusting to 23.  In the Delta, winds at…

July 19, 2021/report

July 19, 2021 The bulk of the monsoon moisture has moved into Nevada and northern California.  Nocturnal thunderstorms percolated along the summit of the Sierra Nevada overnight.  For you lightning lovers, I’m sorry if you missed it.  Here where I live, lightning every .25 second occurs every spring and summer.   Upper level high pressure…

July 18, 2021/update

July 18, 2021 The main body of a fairly significant batch of monsoon moisture is currently moving through southern California.  Some of the heaviest moisture is now moving through the southern San Joaquin Valley.  Doppler radar is indicating scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms over the mountains and deserts of southern California and as far north…