In the last 20 minutes it’s started to rain heavily and there’s an unusual amount of thunder and lightening. Our scaredy-cat German shepherd Lily has managed to limbo her way underneath our new bed to hide from the onslaught.
Category: Weather
Hasn’t rained in a while, but it’s just started and there’s some smaller-than-pea-sized hail mixed in! Some great thunder/lightening as well.
Santa Anas are blowing hard this morning.
It’s drizzling down here, but 4,683 feet up (and a scant 4.167 miles from the front door) it’s snowing!
The view from the webcam on the 9th floor of the Caltech Millikan library about 4.8 miles in the other direction.
Weather graphs for Mount Wilson today indicating a temperature of 29 degrees F.
A view of snowy evergreen trees from Mount Wilson’s web cam.
A web cam image partially occluded by snow build up, but with a snow covered Wilson Observatory in view.
Mount Wilson elevation: 5,713 ft
My elevation: 1030 ft
We just had about two minutes of hail in Southern California! This doesn’t happen very often to be sure.
The heavy New Year’s winds seem to be kicking up here at home.
Dense fog this morning on the ground. The mountain looks clear and the sun has just come out.
Heavy winds hitting us this morning near the mountains in the Eaton Canyon area of Altadena. Seems to be 30-40+ mph sustained winds which woke me up around 5:30am and continuing on.
From earlier this morning, there’s a high wind warning:
…HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM PDT THIS
AFTERNOON…* WINDS AND TIMING…Northeast winds increasing to 30 to 45 mph
with gusts to 65 mph. Isolated gusts to 75 mph possible across
favored locations.* Impacts…Winds this strong may down trees and power lines,
causing property damage or power outages. Cross winds and
blowing dust can make driving difficult, especially for
drivers of high profile vehicles and vehicles towing trailers.
Travel on Interstate 5 and Highway 14 in Los Angeles County
will be affected by the winds.