Getting nasty.

https://mashable.com/2018/03/22/dark-sky-weather-glitch/#UNrpAjbMciqk

-25F for a low on Thursday and 75F for a high? Something ain't right.

In my whole life I fon't ever remember it going below -14F here. That was a nasty winter.

 

Wet and chilly in SoCal today.

Great and likely more landslides. I wonder if Highway 1 will every be open again. I will probably be dead of old age by the time they get that highway cleared. Been itching to do another bicycle tour.

Highway 1 has been closed just north of Ragged Point for over a year now.



First it was a bridge north of Big Sur that was out. Right after that was washed out the landslide occurred.

The good news is it wasn't one of these wonderful works of man made art along the highway. Plenty of natural works of art along the way.

 

Nice animated map showing CONUS snowfall, cumulative, by day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/snow-accumulation/video/snowhill_lg.mp4

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/snow-accumulation/?utm_term=.416d6172fb65

 

Happy spring break, headed to the coast this year with the kids but the mountain snow is great.

 

Happy spring break, headed to the coast this year with the kids but the mountain snow is great.

They sure grow some tiny trees up there at Timberline.

 

That's just the top of the trees. The snow is 90 foot deep.

 

That's just the top of the trees. The snow is 90 foot deep.

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Wow! I did not know that.
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Did the sarcasm tags help?

 

The standard winter lack of rain has my county in a, "major fire hazard" condition, but my county is so populated that I can't think of a acre of woodland except in city or county parks. I think having a forest fire where there are no forests would be quite a trick. Besides, I'm expecting 3 days of rain, starting about...now.

It seems that winter is coming to a close with daytime temperatures above 80F, but the night temperatures are still below 70F, so it isn't officially, "summer", yet.

Meanwhile, I just rebuilt the front left corner of my car's suspension system. CV axle, lower ball joint, and a $150 hub bearing. (I replaced the upper ball joint and sway bar links last year.) Ball joints are not fun! It took about 6 hours to replace this one and most of that was fumbling with a, "universal ball joint tool kit" which wasn't very universal. This job took me 3 days. Murphy's Law and all that. Brittle fasteners, buggered threads, tools that don't fit...you know the drill.

I'm sure the right front needs all the same parts, but I'm not going to do it until I spend a few days recuperating. I believe this is the kind of thing that keeps me from physically deteriorating. Three days of, "over, under, around, and through" a car does wonders for muscle tone and flexibility.

 

Geese heading north. The spring continues.

 

Geese heading north. The spring continues.

How much further can they go? I bet you can see the North Pole from your house!

 

Geese heading north. The spring continues.

The geese around here no longer migrate. They stopped years ago. They multiply like no tomorrow and since the young learn migration from the adults when the adults stopped migrating that was it, so here they stay. I am trying to convince people they would be a good source of food for the hunger shelters.

Ron

 

How much further can they go? I bet you can see the North Pole from your house!

It's along way to the North Pole.

 

The geese around here no longer migrate. They stopped years ago. They multiply like no tomorrow and since the young learn migration from the adults when the adults stopped migrating that was it, so here they stay. I am trying to convince people they would be a good source of food for the hunger shelters.

Ron

Sounds like a good idea but somebody is going to make a fuss about it.
http://www.hgazette.com/cnhi_networ...cle_3594ac87-0b1a-509d-af9b-982172e90e6f.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...errun-parks-Top-chefs-answer-turn-dinner.html

An eccentric baronet of my acquaintance was once apprehended by police near the Serpentine in London’s Hyde Park with a Canada goose under his trench coat in broad daylight. He had killed it with his umbrella.

A policeman asked him what he was doing.

‘Hosting a dinner party,’ came his reply.

 

Miracle on the Hudson and next time they may not be as fortunate. Damn Canada Geese about 2800 feet up took out that plane. Every year we hold a Cleveland National ir show at Burke Lakefront Airport, right on the lake. The Blue Angels alternate with the Air Force Thunderbirds. It was a Thunderbird year. The show was over for the 3 day weekend and they were doing their fly out when one bird took a birdstrike, Took the engine out pilot was slow leaving and ejected inverted sending him into the lake. Now on Air Force years they come into Cleveland Hopkins commercial airport and fly in and out of there to do the show. Navy still flies in and out at Lakefront.

Ron

 

The HONEST weather report.

 

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/37954528/spring-weather-having-dueling-impact-on-local-tulip-farms

 

http://www.kptv.com/story/37954528/spring-weather-having-dueling-impact-on-local-tulip-farms

Far more romantic than roses on a piano: tulips on an organ.

 

Far more romantic than roses on a piano: tulips on an organ.

... even I have heard that very old joke before ...

 

Far more romantic than roses on a piano: tulips on an organ.

That and giving a girlfriend or wife an upright organ for Christmas or an anniversary. Thinking I heard those around '63 or '64.

Ron