Last Tuesday marked the end of the 2019 rain year, which runs from July 1 through June 30. Wednesday was the start of the 2020 rain year.
This Fourth of July holiday weekend will see closed beaches in Northern and Southern California and triple-digit temperatures throughout Calif…
Intense storms with hurricane-force winds have been brewing in the Roaring Forties, the latitudes between 40 and 50 degrees south of the equat…
JOHN LINDSEY My daughter Chloe is attending the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Power School at Goose Creek, South Carolina. Last week she sent me a text.…
As we head toward the summer solstice Saturday, June 20, the Earth’s orbit will bring the North Pole to its most considerable exposure to the …
People continue to ask about my wife, Trish, who suffered a stroke in early February. Well, here is the latest news on her recovery.
My father and our agrarian neighbors often spoke in "weather almanac." They talked about average rainfall or high and low daily temperatures t…
Memorial Day honors the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military and can trace its genesis to the days after the American Civil War.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, I do not think I have ever seen our skies so blue.
Brandt's cormorants are nesting by the hundreds along the rugged cliffs and broad coastal terraces of the Pecho Coast — the coastline that str…
Many of us have seen the spectacular photograph of a surfer on a glowing electric-blue-colored wave as it crashed onto Newport Beach in the So…
As humans, most of us feel vulnerable to the coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting countries and industries worldwide and is having …
"She awaits the rain like a writer embraces metaphors, A drizzle isn't for the child who dances in the storm. Of rain that washes away the pet…
The meteorologist at the National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard office nicknamed it the "Endless Upper-Level Low" and for a good reason.
Typically, the month of April receives roughly a third of the normal rainfall of March, while May only collects about one-tenth of March’s averages.
As a mostly dry January turned into a record-dry February — the heart of our rainfall season, which runs from July 1 to June 30 each year — pr…
My son Sean and I did some catch-and-release fishing on an isolated Whale Rock Reservoir last week. While fishing, we noticed the return of th…
After a dry October and a nearly parched November, the storm door swung open Thanksgiving Day and allowed a series of frigid Gulf of Alaska lo…
Our family's life changed in a moment when my wife suffered a stroke at home on a Saturday afternoon in early February. That afternoon, she co…
In the heart of our rainfall season, the European Model and NOAA's Global Forecast System are indicating mostly dry weather will continue thro…
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This Sunday, the Super Bowl will be played in Miami, while in Pennsylvania, a hairy weather prophet named Punxsutawney Phil will emerge from h…
Along the California coast, the best time of the year for great sunrises and sunsets is winter. Here's why:
Since late November, the jet stream has primarily blown out of the Gulf of Alaska toward California, helping to carve out intense storms off t…
For many years, I served as a naval air crewman on a P-3 Orion. The P-3 is a large four-engine turboprop maritime patrol aircraft that typical…
I'm often asked to recommend books about meteorology. One novel that resonates with me is “Storm” by George Stewart. Like tuning into your fav…
In late November, a 972-millibar “bomb cyclone” slammed into the Oregon coastline, with sustained southerly winds that reached 85 mph with gus…
A cold Gulf of Alaska storm is forecast to move through the Central Coast on Christmas Day through Thursday, producing gusty southerly winds a…
