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Showing posts with label Tule Fog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tule Fog. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Fog Returning to the Great Valley...Maybe

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The fog here in the Great Valley is legendary. The so-called Tule Fogs can last for weeks, hiding the land in an impenetrable mist. People...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Fog Returns to the Great Valley! I hate it, but it's a good thing (tentatively)

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Buffalo has apocalyptic lake-effect snow, Minnesota has blizzards, Phoenix has horrific dust storms, Kansas has tornadoes, New Orleans has...
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Friday, January 17, 2014

A Picture Tells the Story. We're in Big Trouble Out West.

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Source: http://drought.unl.edu/MonitoringTools/NASAGRACEDataAssimilation.aspx It's a terrifying picture. We have been through 12 of...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Living in the Shadowlands (for the time being)

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"We live in the Shadowlands. The sun is always shining somewhere else. Round a bend in the road. Over the bough of a hill..." C....
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Beautiful Days of Autumn in the Great Valley

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I get it that Californians don't truly understand the concept of autumn. I've never seen the full glorious display of fall colors ac...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Decisions, decisions...

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The Tule Fogs have arrived with a vengeance in California's Great Valley (Central Valley). After a series of very wet storms over the l...
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I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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