Richard

It looks like Hurricane Norbert is moving directly east from Baja into mainland Mexico, eventually bringing more rain to Fernie in Texas. Out here in the west in southern California and Nevada we have another high pressure system building in the Great Basin, with heat searing "Santa Ana" winds predicted for Mon.-Wed.

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lorax

Yick. Good luck!

Here, now, 19 degrees C and partly cloudy with a light breeze. Looks like a thunderstorm blowing in off Volcano Alley.

dablo93

here now 16 degrees C with sun but it was expected to reach 21 today..
next week cooler weather, 12-15 c, clouds and some rain.
over 2 weeks i go for a week to Istanbul so I hope i get better weather overthere

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It started in the Vista-Oceanside area. The smoke plumes are so large that it looks just a few miles away -- in reality it is 20 miles to the NNW.

Here's the news story:
KPBS > News > Local News

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island cassie

We have torrential rain here on and off as a spin-off from hurricane Omar, but not as bad as St Thomas in the USVI where they had nearly three inches in an hour at midday today. The eye is due to pass directly over them tonight. We had 3.5 inches last night and the yard is SOGGY as we have had thunderstorms every night this week - 5 inches in 5 days. But you can see the bananas growing and almost hear them shlurping that rain up - temps very cool at 77f/25c.
Cassie

Richard

I've been through 3-inch an hour storms in the Pacific northwest -- might as well wear a wet suit!

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island cassie

Haha! ain't that the truth - and don't even think about trying to dry anything!!
Cassie

island cassie

The other half has just taken the big dog out for a walk in what he supposed was a dry patch - and the heavens have opened with a vengeance when he must be at his furtherest point from home!!! And I am indoors on the computer!!

dablo93

Omar is now going really fast to the north, with a speed of 30 mph.
with some luck, it gives us some warmer weather, hurricane Bertha did it and another one also a month ago or so. laura brought storm here. i hope omer gives us some warmth!
10 c here now.

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island cassie

Well Daen - I don't know about warmth - but you will probably get some wet!!

island cassie

Torrential rain every night this week (mind you I'm glad it's at night) - Tuesday night 3.4 inches in 3 hours and wind so strong that it blew over a dc with fruit in a protected area. Cayman Islands are having the same weather but when I look at the satellite images - nada!! And now it is pouring again - driving so hard that the spray reached me in the kitchen and I had to scream for the other half to do something. Quickly!! Last nights rain brought in a beautiful black tarantula about 7 inches across, but as I didn't want him walking over my feet in the night, I scooped him up in a plastic bowl and found a dry place outside for him. The wildlife here can be very much part of the family - snakes living in the garden walls, rats in the generator house, mice in the garage and tarantulas strolling down the hall - gals who scream at the sight of a worm have a hard time here!! And the birds!! All I can say is that I am so lucky.

Richard

Looks like you had a weather system pass over you on the way to Yucatan. Here's the current situation:

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island cassie

A few whisps - yes - but nothing to justify the weather we have been getting - almost worse than the hurricane kisses! Swimming pools overflowing and tidemarks of grassclippings showing deep water. But I don't need to water my plants in pots (lol) - the dragon fruit seedlings took a battering though.

Richard

O.K., our "rainy" season has started here in San Diego, CA. We will receive about 7 inches (18 cm) between now and the end of March. Then we might get another 1/2 cm between April and this time next year.

Many natives to this area feel that 1/4 inch is a big rain storm and find it annoying. In the '80s I lived in McKinleyville CA where it would rain 7 inches in one day during the winter season. Now that's rain!

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lorax

Good lord. It's currently severely flooding in Florianopolis - I hope Basjoofriend's hacienda isn't underwater.

Here, it's been drier than usual, but yesterday Quito got something like 30 cm of rain. (That's about 12 inches for you Americans) and parts of our historic center flooded. Today is overcast and about 20 C, but it's going down to 8 C at night. Time to go to the jungle, I say!

island cassie

Yikes Lorax - that's a bit damp!! and cold too! Here are our rainfall figures for the last 2 years - didn't keep them the first year unfortunately.

2007 2008
Jan 13.5 13.0
Feb 8.45 3.3
Mar 17.05 1.9
Apr 8.55 10.8
May 9.2 5.35
Jun 3.0 6.5
July 2.2 2.6
Aug 4.3 4.3
Sept 1.8 10.3
Oct 13.5 81.55 16.2 74.25
Nov 19.1 12.6 so far
Dec 11.7
Annually 112.35 inches

Richard - isn't weather wonderful!! We have a lot of 5 and 10 peso bets going on the annual rainfall and it is amazing how much interest it has generated!

lorax

We do 50 centavo bets on when the next earthquake will hit, and where, as well as 25-50 centavo bets on the thunderstorms and which part of the city is going to flood next.

bepah

I was unexpectedly lucky today. The storm that hit SoCal was not supposed to have much impact up my way, but we got nearly 1/2 inch.....tremendous. Now if this could happen once a week through March, I would sleep the sleep of the just.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, ALL!

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island cassie

Hey Lorax - we haven't had a good earthquake here since the 6.4 one of about 2003 ( too lazy to look it up!) Lots of tiddlers at about 3 and they had a 5 recently down south. The thing that fascinates me about the bigger ones, is how the noise precedes the quake. Every time we go across the mountains to Santiago, we check on the tectonic plate slippage by the movement of the white lines on the road - left, right, up, down - keep those little quakes coming!!

lorax

We don't count anything less than 4.5 - they're so frequent. I won the last set of bets on the 6.8 in Morona Santiago last month.

You're right - the big ones make a really nifty noise.