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November 5, 2016 San Nicolas Island Sea Lions — no, wait — they are Elephant Seals!

On this day on San Nicolas Island, I rode my bike from Nicktown to the north coast, a little northwest of the “town.” There… [Read More]

Unravelling Death Valley’s 134F Temperature Record — Part 5 Supplemental Data Tables

The data tables below were prepared for the WeatherUnderground writeup of October, 2016. Incorporated in Table A are the average daily maximums for Death Valley… [Read More]

October 10, 2016 San Nicolas Island photography

I had my tripod with me out on the island on this visit, so I was able to get some decent long-exposure shots of… [Read More]

Unravelling Death Valley’s 134F Temperature Record — Part 4 Historic Heat Waves

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]

August 20, 2016 Westlake Village sunset

A large wildfire was in progress on this afternoon, well to my west, in Santa Barbara County. Even though it was more than 70… [Read More]

August 11, 2016 Perseids from Chuchupate

The Perseid meteor shower was likely to be a lot better this year — so said the folks who presumably know these things. The… [Read More]

July 1, 2016 Acoma, NM Rain Blob

June 30 was my final chase day of the season with Tempest Tours. Chris Gullikson took over the tour directing duties, and I headed… [Read More]

June 30, 2016 Lycan, Colorado Supercell

Start/Holyoke, CO End/Elkhart, KS SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1100 Severe weather parameters were just so-so today, with marginal wind shear and pretty good… [Read More]

June 29, 2016 Strong Storms in Northeast Colorado

Start/Ogallala, NE End/Holyoke, CO Lunch at Dix, NE D&B Diner SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1091 SPC Storm Reports With moderate northwest flow… [Read More]

June 28, 2016 Hyannis Supercell

Start/Yuma, CO End/Ogallala, NE 471 miles Lunch at the Runza in Sidney, NE SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1072 E WY/W NE 2… [Read More]

June 27, 2016 Ovid Supercell

Start/North Platte, NE End/Yuma, CO 346 miles Lunch at Valentinos in Ogallala SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1064 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1065 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1066 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1067 Storm Reports Our… [Read More]

June 26, 2016 Nebraska Sandhills Supercells

Start/Denver End/North Platte 402 miles Lunch at Fort Morgan (Taco Johns for me!) SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1063 June 26 Storm Reports The… [Read More]

June 23, 2016 Marginal Severe near Sterling, CO

Start/Belle Fourche, SD End/Stratton, CO about 520 miles SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1034 This was the final chase day for Tour 6 and… [Read More]

June 22, 2016 Going to Church in South Dakota

Start/Lemmon, SD End/Belle Fourche, SD 183 miles Lunch in Ludlow at the Crooked Creek Cafe Chris took his mini tour group into Rapid… [Read More]

June 21, 2016 Amidon, ND supercell

Start/Baker, MT End/Lemmon, SD 279 miles Lunch at the Baker Cabin Creek Cafe (Baker, MT) SPC Day One Outlook (20Z) spc-mesoscale-discussion-1005 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1007 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1010 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1011… [Read More]