Been kinda' breezy around here . . . . . .

[elagache]

Dear WeatherCat "interesting" weather watchers,

As you may have heard, it has been decidedly damp in California for most of December.  However, those darn Californian's are so fickle that they got bored with all that rain and decided they wanted some other kind of extreme weather: wind!

Here are the notifications from WC Storm Monitor for yesterday until this morning:



We had high winds for over 11 hours and the strongest gust was 29 mph (47 km/h).  My anemometer is very close to the roof-top so that much more dangerous wind that it otherwise would appear.  It came within 1 mph of tying the record for strongest wind ever observed in 5 years of station operation.  So, yeah, it was plenty breezy around here!

December is almost over and we are still way over normal rainfall for the month:



However, it hasn't rained significantly since the 19th.  We did need to dry out some but I'm always a little nervous when the rain stops.    For the moment we are expecting at least some rain starting in the middle of next week.  Sure hope the spigot remains mostly - open!! 

Cheers, Edouard 

[LesCimes]

Speaking of breezy... I can always tell when the wind is out of the southeast - I mean apart from looking at my VP2 Console or weather site. There is a wood pulp paper plant, International Paper, a few miles to my southeast. SE winds waft the smelly releases from the plant this way. Fortunately, we don't get SE winds all that much and they don't last too long either.