October 1st, 2009
Well, this sunset actually looked like a typical October sunset, and it is actually October. Finally, a little normalcy, as the last half year or so has been quite abnormal weather wise (but we don't miss the tropical storms at all, we will take the weird weather gladly!). Guess the El Nino is temporarily losing it's discombobulating effects? Whatever, the weather is nice, feels like fall, smells like fall (up north), and it is nice and warm and cool, before the cold snaps and the tourist invasion, a nice time of year here...
October 2nd, 2009
That is a long cloud at the start of the video, not a sunbeam nor a "cloudbeam", as you will see many others throughout the video going in several directions. This was highly unusual, impossible to fit it all in with just one video. Note that the weather radar of this region at the time depicted strong upper level winds going in all directions, so it would seem that the clouds were wind driven...?
October 3rd, 2009 - Nice sunset, but see the next video below for an earlier take...
October 3rd, 2009
This video was taken about 45 minutes before the one above it, from a different location, not so much for the sunset, but for the sky full of feathery clouds. There is actually a better video of the clouds than this one on the "Clouds" page of this site...
October 4th, 2009
October 5th, 2009 - Just for the record, a thunderstorm moving in from the glades at sunset...
October 6th, 2009 - After a calm sunrise, today's heat kicked up a little breeze for the sunset...
October 7th, 2009 - The day started calm, but an ocean breeze picked up as the day went along...
October 8th, 2009 - Just for the record, the video guy admits to getting into position to video the sunset a few minutes late, like almost after the sun has set, but then he (says that he...) encountered a helicopter flyover, two jet skis, three of those obnoxiously loud powered hang gliders, four noisy boats, and five ospreys in a pear tree. Just kidding with the pear tree, but there was some of the above noise and visual interference and by the time a video was captured, with no clouds on a clear evening, there just was not much worth posting a video for except to show a tree lined waterway at dusk. So, just for the record, above average temps today but no record heat, very calm as you could see from the sunrise video and it stayed that way into the evening, clear sky, no clouds, lots of no-see-ums, no tourists, quite a few bikinis, not many loco locals, but the usual tiki bar patrons were to be found indulging in a hedonistic lifestyle on the broadwalk (including us!). Life is good, somebody has to live in this sweet swirling sweaty swamp... Wordy, huh? Can you tell the web gal had a few glasses of wine at the tiki bar? C ya tomoro....
October 9th, 2009
October 10th, 2009 - What turtle? The things kids see...
Right after the above video was taken, a little girl and her parents were strolling by when the little girl said "Look at the turtle!". The parents stopped, looked into the water, but saw no turtle, so the little girl pointed up at the horizon and informed them that it was not in the water, but that she saw a turtle in the clouds. The video guy confessed that he did not see it either until the little girl spotted it.
October 11th, 2009 - Temps got up to around 90 again today, the local yocal weather "ex-spurts" are finally calling it an "October heat wave" (global warming? climate change? heck no, just a silly old record breaking "heat wave")...
October 12th, 2009
It was yet another warm day here, got up to around 90, this morning's wind had laid by sunset and it was nice and calm, conducive to no-see-ums -- but we will take that over hurricanes and cold spells.
October 13th, 2009
Seems the video guy was bored with this evening's lackluster sunset, so rather than the "same ole, same ole" he took the video hanging upside down over the side of the waterway boardwalk to capture an inverted video (we didn't have the heart to tell him that all he had to do was turn the camera upside down to do that...). His point was that most folks go around looking at our "world" as flat, and that when we look "up" we see the sky. He says to take a hard look at this video, as though you were suspended in space or doing a "fly by" and were looking at the "bottom" of our planet, with the water and earth at the top, and the clouds and sky at the bottom at which you are actually looking "out" at space, the universe, not looking "up". Kind of gives you a different perspective of the fact that we are on a little rock that is spinning around while it circles that hot thing out there that we call the sun. The video guy is a little weird, but that is an essential trait of someone who goes out and stands around fighting off no-see-ums and mosquitoes at dawn and dusk in the heat and the cold just to capture videos (not to mention tropical storms winds, rain, lightning, and bikinis)...
October 14th, 2009 - Another nice evening, breezy and a little cool, but it was a very warm day...
October 15th, 2009 - We captured a sunset video this evening, but we are working on a tech problem with the camera. In the interim, note that as predicted we set a record high temperature for today of 91 degrees, while also setting a second record of eleven straight days of 90 degrees or above during the month of October ("climate warming"?). The same temp of 91 is predicted again for tomorrow, another record, but the weekend finally is supposed to be our first real cool down of the fall season with lows predicted in the 60's -- time to get out the socks and shoes and sweatshirts. That's a pretty sudden significant drop when we are used to mid to low 80's at sunrise...
Update: we lost the videos for this evening, they were OK but no big deal; in retrospect, we should note that the weather this evening was clear, crisp, with a gentle breeze, temperatures just right, and just about as gorgeous as it gets...
October 16th, 2009
The high temps in the region today were in the low 90's for most inland localities, setting records for the date, plus also setting a record for the 12th straight day that the temps were in the 90's for the month of October. Relief from summer temps and humidity is said to be rolling in with a cool front this weekend. Can tourist season be far behind? We hope so...
But, with today's record breaking "historic" earliest snowfall up north of from four to eight inches, some of those folks are probably looking at our high temperatures and thinking of starting "tourist season" early this year. Hmmm, record heat and all-time high tides here, and historic early snowfalls up there, must just be the effects of El Nino, surely not climate CHANGE!? Well, "they" might concede that all this (and much more) does amount to an itsy bitsy change in the climate, but "they" will refute the sillyness of global warming -- heck, just because the glaciers and polar ice caps are melting away, that doesn't mean anything, just something "cyclical"...
October 17th, 2009 - Well, goodbye summer heat wave, hello winter wind...
The predicted cool front arrives with a biting northwest wind, with temperatures now speculated to dive into the low 60's or upper 50's overnight. Gonna be a cold sunrise tomoro... The nasty weather at sunset tonight was preceded today by a balmy breeze carrying the earthy fragrances of the northern fall, to include burning leaves and wood smoke -- so, it seemed like a fall day here finally, a little late in the season what with the extended summer heat wave sliding into mid October.
October 18th, 2009 - A chilly windy day, but sunny with a high around 70 here...
October 19th, 2009 - A little warmer today, but with winds of 20 mph gusting to almost 30...
October 20th, 2009 - Sunset at the close of a beautiful day here with warm sunshine and a chilly breeze. We actually took our beach chairs out this afternoon to take a break and soak up sun vitamin sunshine.
October 21st, 2009 - Still breezy and warm, juuust riiight as ole Goldylocks would say...
October 22nd, 2009 - Sunset, just before the sixth "dry season" downpour of the day...
The local yocal news-rag came out with an article today that we have just seen the end of the wet season, that the dry season has now officially begun. It has been dry here for the last week or two, no rain. But today, we had, if we did not lose count, five showers with a few bordering on downpours -- you would think that they would check the weather forecast to avoid the embarrassment of predicting the start of the dry season on a day that looked more like the wet season....
October 23rd, 2009
Not much color to the sunsets lately, everything just seems to fade to gray...
October 24th, 2009 - Sunset cruising...
October 25th, 2009 - Another warm day, but sunset just faded to gray again...
October 26th, 2009 - Ditto Yesterday...
October 27th, 2009 - Amazing how similar this evenings sunset was to yesterdays...
October 29th, 2009
October 30th, 2009
October 31st, 2009 - The chirping at mid-video is from an osprey across the waterway
The month of October was the hottest, driest October ever recorded for the region. And don't tell anyone but WE saw the highest high tide here on the intracoastal waterway during the month of October than ever before -- the water was actually coming up through the planks in the waterway boardwalk at low points. You won't hear anything about that from the big media bobble-heads though, as they are paid off by big business, real estate firms, and the chamber of commerce to keep it all quiet.
Of course that "extra" water has nothing to do with the the polar ice caps melting, nor with the Greenland and Iceland ice sheets melting, nor the meltdown of the Kilimanjaro and K2 ice fields, nor with all of the planet's glaciers melting, nor with existing sea water thermal expansion due to higher temperatures which are due to increasing record levels of human-made pollutants in the atmosphere trapping the planet's heat. Nope, can't be any of those silly little ole things. Heck there isn't really an "global warming" at all according to the "Big Deniers", just because the planet's temperature is increasing, it'll start going down again, someday, after we are all living up in the mountains, close to the seashore at the foot of the mountains. We even noted one Big Denier comment that even if everything does melt, then all the sea life will die from the toxins we are dumping in the oceans and that will make plenty of room for the melt water, heck the water levels may even go down...
By the way, having mentioned Iceland, we hear that they are thinking of renaming it soon to No-iceland, or Iceless-land, or Iceallgone-land, or Whuthappendtoduhice-land. Hey, seriously, do a search on "rising sea levels map" for some very interesting information, especially if you or someone you know lives or owns property in a low lying coastal area. Here we all come Montana!
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