Tag Archives: summer

Here comes the super-hot summer of 2016

This year has been off the charts hot. Lots of graphics to that point: The February heat anomaly this year [as charted by NOAA] is scary to me. Already we are in the fifth year of drought, which has only slightly lessened, and not at all in central SoCal. And now models pointed are callingContinue reading “Here comes the super-hot summer of 2016”

Global weirding 2013: same temp in Ojai as in Greenland

In Greenland this week, temperatures reached an all-time high: 80F.  The temperature in Ojai (in Southern California) today: 80F. WTF?  In Greenland, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) gently suggested that climate change might have something to do with the high temperatures. As reported by Jason Samenow for the Washington Post:  The DMI says the warmthContinue reading “Global weirding 2013: same temp in Ojai as in Greenland”

Wander here a whole summer, if you can: John Muir

Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God’s wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled, and so burdened with duty that only weeks can be get out of the heavy-laden year, then go toContinue reading “Wander here a whole summer, if you can: John Muir”