“A coach I played under in college always said, ‘You’re going to play your most important games in cold weather … He was wrong on this one.” ~ Dodger outfielder Andre Ethier The first game of the 2017 World Series, here in Los Angeles, was the hottest World Series game played in the history of […]
“Listen! The wind is rising and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” ~ Humbert Wolfe, 1885-1940 Italian-born British poet Early Monday morning the chiming and tingling of wind chimes announced the arrival of the Santa Ana winds. By 9 a.m. the temperature read 90 F; […]
“Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space.” ~ Buzz Aldrin, U.S. astronaut Looking […]
“O suns and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson As days grow shorter, the skies at sunset glow with the most spectacular hues, blooming with pinks, reds and oranges. Once again, Deukmejian Wilderness Park was voted by […]
“Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fate and rainfall have commonalities. They, for the most part, remain unknown until they are upon us. At about this time every year, we begin to wonder about the weather for the approaching winter. The […]
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet What are you doing tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 22 at 1:02 p.m. PDST? One of the greatest (celestial) […]
“Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes … The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.” ~ Space Chronicles by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D, Astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural […]
“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.” ~ James Taylor What a week! When the La Tuna Fire really took off, I was in the La Crescenta Vons parking lot. The temperature had climbed beyond the 100 degrees mark, and while smoke billowed, cumulonimbus clouds […]
“’Houston, we have a hurricane.’ Our thoughts and prayers are with folks feeling Harvey’s wrath, as dawn breaks after a long night of rain.” ~Astronaut Jack Fischer, International Space Station, Aug. 27, 2017 Words cannot adequately describe the immensity and impact of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey. It doesn’t seem fair to mention our current heat wave […]
“Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, and I say It’s all right. Sun, sun, sun, here it comes.” ~ George Harrison Did you doubt – even for a moment – the sun’s return during Monday’s Great American Eclipse? Ancient peoples had this fear, and for good reason. Astronomer E.C. Krupp of Griffith […]