PART FOUR — HISTORIC HEAT WAVES IN THE DEATH VALLEY REGION This part was becoming large and unwieldy, so I have broken it up into… [Read More]
December 8, 2015 Offshore Missile Launch from Malibu
I work as a weather observer at local Navy airports, so I had some inside information on an offshore missile launch this morning. It… [Read More]
December 4, 2015 Rhyolite and Titus Canyon
This day began in Beatty, Nevada, with Rhyolite and Titus Canyon on the menu. Marcia had to be back at Burbank Airport by 6… [Read More]
December 3, 2015 Death Valley Mesquite Dunes
Marcia and I got out of Lone Pine at about 5:30 a.m. and made our way east to Death Valley for some sunrise photography…. [Read More]
December 3, 2015 The Racetrack and northern Death Valley
After lunch in Furnace Creek, Marcia and I headed north on Scottys Castle Road. This took us through the northern portions of Death Valley…. [Read More]
December 3, 2015 In and Around Death Valley
This was my friend Marcia’s first visit to Death Valley, so I wanted to squeeze in as many interesting locations into this day as… [Read More]
December 2, 2015 Alabama Hills and Mount Whitney
It was time for a desert photography trip, and I just happened to have a few days off to do whatever I wanted to… [Read More]
November 2015 update
Howdy Stormbruiser web site perusers, My world travels have taken me to Malibu and Florida in the past couple of months, so check out the… [Read More]
2015 Storm Chase Season Summary
The daily chase accounts have been posted, so it is happy chase season summary time! I worked as the tour director for Tempest Tours… [Read More]
November 14, 2015 Abandoned aircraft on San Nicolas Island
The weather on this Saturday was calm and clear and warm — kind of unusual for these parts! I managed to make the 6-mile… [Read More]
November 13, 2015 Local minimum temperature study
The offshore wind pattern of the past few days has spread very dry air over SoCal and has resulted in a very wide range of… [Read More]
October 30, 2015 San Nicolas Island AP sunrise
My shift at the airport on San Nicolas Island begins before sunrise. There were no clouds around this morning, and I had the camera… [Read More]
October 6, 2015 An Afternoon at El Matador Beach
October 6 was another perfect “late summer” day in southern California. The beach beckoned, so Jennifer and I had some fun with the cameras… [Read More]
September 25-28, 2015 Florida East Coast
I was in Florida during the last week of September, and there were a handful of interesting photo opportunities. One of these was the… [Read More]
August 13, 2015 Milky Way meteors from San Nick
On this evening I was stationed out on San Nicolas Island, during a week-long stint as weather observer at its Navy airport. This small… [Read More]
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