Below is a slew of imagery from LAX in early September. But, there is ONE image from the Mojave Desert! The 8th photo shows… [Read More]
Archives for August 2020
August 17, 2020 Hot Drive To Death Valley, with temperature measurements!
Yes, you guessed it. I NEED to be in Death Valley when the high temperature is near record levels. Maybe it is a sickness…. [Read More]
August 17, 2020 The Continued Decline in Exposure of the Death Valley Weather Station
On August 17, 2020, I took a drive to Death Valley and took the photos below. This was a day after the station… [Read More]
August 16, 2020 Record High Temperature of 130F at Death Valley!
130!! The official National Weather Service station in Death Valley, at the National Park Service Visitors Center in Furnace Creek, registered a high temperature… [Read More]
August 16, 2020 Military Cargo Plane at San Nicolas Island
Rumor has it that this is a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster. It did a few touch-and-goes along the 2-mile long runway here, and… [Read More]
August 15, 2020 Hot Local Chase
Temperatures soared in the local valleys today as onshore flow to the deserts was weak, the marine inversion was very shallow, and a hot upper… [Read More]
August 14, 2020 Sunrise at LAX and Pyrocumulus from Calabasas
A pretty and smoky sunrise and a morning shift at LAX resulted in some adequate photos. On the way home, a fire north of… [Read More]
August 9, 2020 A Canyon Hike on San Nicolas Island
All of the images below were taken during a two-hour hike into a couple of canyons just west of Nicktown on San Nicolas Island…. [Read More]
August 2, 2020 Foggy Sunrise at LAX
Fog moved in quickly at LAX as I assumed the morning weather observer shift. Smoke layers aloft to the east filtered the sunlight to… [Read More]