This is an important breaking news bulletin from beautiful Tuscany Hills in San Jose, California.
It’s raining.
Granted, it’s an ineffectual sprinkle, but you should note that I haven’t even unpacked my umbrella since I moved here.
[3:32pm: well… now it’s stopped raining.]
Last weekend I was at a local studio doing some test filming for an upcoming film project. Outside the rear doors of the studio was an enormous microwave satellite dish. Directly below the dish, looking for all the [more...]
Earlier this week, the weather maps forecast an area of snow to our east:
After the front went through, a satellite snapped this photo of the planet:
I am both astounded and impressed.
[via Capital Weather.com]
I’m still feeling guilty about the whole ant massacre, but I think that today I redeemed myself — somewhat — in the eyes of the insect world. We all know what it’s like to work with a bunch of [more...]
Earlier today I happened to be on weather.com, comparing monthly average temperature and rainfall between here (Arlington) and the Bay Area — I like charts — and yeah, the contrast is very striking: throughout the year Arlington has wide seasonal temperature variations but more evenly distributed rainfall trends, while San Jose varies less in temperature but has an inverse bell-curve of rainfall, dipping to almost no rain in the summer.