Start: Santa Rosa, NM Lunch: Grab-and-Go/Pilot/Hobbs End: Fort Stockton, TX/557 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Chase account by TT guest Lesleyanne Above: Surface map… [Read More]
Record Hot Death Valley Heat Wave, July 9-12, 2021 (Data and Charts)
On the weekend of the 108th anniversary of the bogus 134F maximum temperature report in Death Valley, a very high-end heat wave… [Read More]
October 13, 2020 A Drive to Western Nevada Mining Towns
MOUNT MONTGOMERY, NEVADA (site) This leisurely drive to visit some new (for me) areas of western Nevada began in Bishop, California. … [Read More]
October 13 and 14, 2020 Owens Valley smoke layers
A trip up into western Nevada took me through the Owens Valley, coming and going. The Milky Way shot was from the Bishop… [Read More]
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]
November 12, 2019 Bodie, California Ghost Town
From Lee Vining on this chilly and mostly clear morning we set our sights on Bodie. The easy way to get there is… [Read More]
November 11, 2019 Mono Lake sunset and moonrise
This was my second visit to Mono Lake, and the first with a digital camera. The weather was quite nice and mild, and the… [Read More]
November 11, 2019 Mount Whitney, Chidago Canyon, and Benton Hot Springs
On a drive up to Mono Lake, this morning began in Lone Pine, and we took a little time to shoot the Eastern Sierra… [Read More]
September 23, 2019 Needles and Lake Havasu City severe storms
I was well aware of the decent storm prospects today when I awoke at home. A strong upper-level system for late September was dropping… [Read More]
March 14, 2019 Flowers in Anza Borrego State Park
Jennifer and I headed to Anza Borrego to check out the flowers. And the rocks. This is Palm Canyon, in the State Park.
March 15, 2019 Spring flowers in the Desert (Coachella and Joshua Tree)
This was another day on the road to photograph pretty desert scenery, with spring flowers! Many desert areas of Southern California experienced a “superbloom”… [Read More]
January 5, 2019 Owens Valley and the Reward Mine
Marcia and I were in Explore Mode in the Owens Valley. It was a chilly winter day without much sun as a Pacific storm… [Read More]
January 4, 2019 A quick run through Saline Valley, California
Marcia and I headed north to the Owens Valley to get away from it all, and to explore and photograph. We stopped along the… [Read More]
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