As Judith Lewis Mernit wrote for a blog with High Country News: The weather of Venice Beach, California, where I live, is for the most part stable, and almost always predictable. No sudden squalls appear out of the southwest to chase skateboarders off their concrete ramps; never do we hear the civil-defense sirens warning ofContinue reading “Storms, lighting, death at Venice beach: Climate change?”
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Yosemite backcountry July 2010: It’s still coming down
At the wilderness center in Yosemite Valley yesterday, I overheard the rangers discussing in amazement the weather, which surprised forecasters by producing not just some rain, but substantial and painful hail this week in the mountains. From last Wednesday, in the early afternoon at Lower Ottoway Lake: Those innocent-looking clouds built up and gave usContinue reading “Yosemite backcountry July 2010: It’s still coming down”
Kit Stolz 