Global Warming: Good News for California Coast?

Four weeks ago in Southern California, Santa Ana winds threatened to drive two fires in Simi Valley — the Porter Ranch and the Sesnon Fire — on a path through the sun-baked hills towards the ocean. But instead of building in strength and destructiveness, as the winds often have in the past, the Santa AnasContinue reading “Global Warming: Good News for California Coast?”

Fire in the Sky (Weirdness Edition)

This is what it looked like in downtown Santa Paula yesterday afternoon about 2:30. You’d think we were halfway through the Book of Revelations, but in fact we were a good twenty-five miles (or more) from the Ranch Fire in Castaic. (The weird white spots I can’t identify: perhaps dust seen in the flash?) ButContinue reading “Fire in the Sky (Weirdness Edition)”