Groundwater recharge and your checkbook
“Atmospheric Rivers” (a.k.a. the Pineapple Express) are all the rage these days, and those of us west of the Rockies are hoping that the current weather patterns will help put an end to the...
Category: Climate
It’s The Climate
Susie and I have lived in and near Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon since the 1970s. One of the first things that caught our eye when we blew into town was the huge sign...
Lake effect snow
The weather reports and forecasts (11/18/22) are not at all promising. While the entire Eastern Seaboard looks to become very white over the next several days, Buffalo, New York is getting much of the...
The sound of the sun
I mentioned in an earlier post that sitting at the beach gives us a chance to listen to the voice of the sun. While this may sound like a 60s flashback — and fifty-plus...
Introduction to waves in the ocean
I think that one thing most of us will agree upon is that sitting on the shore and listening to the sound of the sun can help soothe even the rockiest of passions. Any...
Hurricane Ian
This will be a short one, but hopefully set the stage for several more that will come as soon as I can put them together (how cool would it be to have nothing else...
Super Volcanoes
kaBoom2 The headline of the article in Global Times (8/10/22) sounded ominous: “Earth overdue for volcanic super eruption. Explosive pressure builds up over millions of years, new research finds.” The article reports that “super...
Turn Around, Don’t Drown
Oh my! The images and videos of the August 2022 flooding in Death Valley, California, are certainly impressive. Only 1.46 inches of rainfall were recorded at the Furnace Creek Visitor’s Center, but that was...
Wildfire
We all have those times of the year that we really enjoy. For myself I love the late fall when the rain machine here in southwestern Oregon (usually) turns on (if we’re lucky) and...
Here Comes the Sun…
I spent much of my high school years on a surfboard. It became a full-throated obsession during my senior year when the school test-drove a new program called “Self-Imposed Scheduling.” If you were in...
