Weather where you are

[Sirius Glass]

70 degrees, chilly and overcast

 

[Hatchetman]

I have not seen the sun in a month. This was taken about 3PM.

 

[lxdude]

It was nice to have some actual rain over the past couple of weeks. There's some snow in the mountains, and the ski resorts are open.
There is such a thing as snow in Southern California-and not just on mountaintops

mtncare.com/web-cameras/angelus-oaks-web-cam

 

[Sirius Glass]

It was nice to have some actual rain over the past couple of weeks. There's some snow in the mountains, and the ski resorts are open.
There is such a thing as snow in Southern California-and not just on mountaintops

mtncare.com/web-cameras/angelus-oaks-web-cam

But it never rains in Southern California ...

 

[mike c]

But it never rains in Southern California ...

if you keep saying that Sirus, it could very possible come true.


Mike

 

[Truzi]

It's 22^F (-5.5^C) and very sunny.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Baby its cold outside!
Current Conditions

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Fair
57°F
14°C

3 Miles NE Santa Monica CA

7 Day Forecast

Detailed Forecast

• Tonight Clear, with a low around 39. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
• New Year's Day Sunny, with a high near 60. North wind around 5 mph becoming west southwest in the morning.
• Thursday Night Clear, with a low around 40. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm.
• Friday Sunny, with a high near 62. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the morning.
• Friday Night Clear, with a low around 43. West southwest wind around 5 mph becoming north in the evening.
• Saturday Sunny, with a high near 63.
• Saturday Night Clear, with a low around 44.
• Sunday Sunny, with a high near 69.
• Sunday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 49.
• Monday Sunny, with a high near 72.
• Monday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 51.
• Tuesday Sunny, with a high near 74.
• Tuesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 51.
• Wednesday Sunny, with a high near 74.

 

[BradleyK]

-4C this am, with a bit of frost atop Burnaby Mountain; warming up later in the day, I would guess the temperature may have managed 3 or 4C. Overnight temperatures should be about the same. Tomorrow afternoon is our annual Polar Bear Dip down at English Bay; a couple of rolls of E100G and some HP5+ are currently thawing on the counter...

 

[Arklatexian]

Warm shirt sleeve weather again.

It is January 1, 2015 and it will be 32F before morning. My friend in Bolivia is complaining about the heat where he is. The rain they get comes from weather that comes up from Antartica. The weather man on TV reminded us tonight that the Red River (the one the cowboys sang about) froze over on this date in 1983. I remember and it was quite a sight. We had three flakes of snow in November 2014.......Regards

 

[mooseontheloose]

January 1st, 2015 -- it's snowing like crazy here in Kyoto (and most of Japan). I haven't seen snow like this (in Japan) in over 10 years. Hopefully it sticks around tomorrow so I can shoot some film!

 

[Black Dog]

Look forward to seeing the results in a future postcard exchange if you do!

 

[MattKing]

Gorgeous day here today - sun, no cloud, no wind and about 4C.

Great day for the Polar Bear swims (for others to participate in!)

 

[Dr Croubie]

Catastrophic fire danger predicted for today. 42C and 50km/h winds, if a fire gets started it'll be very difficult to put out. National parks closed, firefighters (including a lot of my mates) on standby, water-bombing aircraft at the ready. And a lightning storm tomorrow.
Beautiful day otherwise, spent yesterday at the beach. Today just chilling (literally) with the aircon on and the solar-panels powering away to pay for it.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Catastrophic fire danger predicted for today. 42C and 50km/h winds, if a fire gets started it'll be very difficult to put out. National parks closed, firefighters (including a lot of my mates) on standby, water-bombing aircraft at the ready. And a lightning storm tomorrow.
Beautiful day otherwise, spent yesterday at the beach. Today just chilling (literally) with the aircon on and the solar-panels powering away to pay for it.

Best wishes to you in this time of harsh conditions.

 

[Dr Croubie]

Best wishes to you in this time of harsh conditions.

Thanks. Coming from SoCal you're probably more than aware of what it's like, we've already had the hottest Octember on record (although less of a drought than you, but that's not such a good thing, more water means more fuel grows).
I'm personally fine down here on the plains, I know Hoffy is up a bit in the hills but more southern so I hope he's fine up there (geographically Adelaide is like LA, beach on the west, then plains, then hills encircling where all the fires happen).

There's already a few around, northeast of the city where I drove through only last weekend. Just went out in the car shopping and saw the huge plum of smoke wafting southwards.

And there's one in Vic near Moyston, just east of The Grampians where we all met a few months ago, I think I can see it in some of the pics I took from there.

Hope everyone else is all safe.

 

[Molli]

I'm south and east (next state over) of where Dr. Croubie is and it only got to 38°C in my little sea side suburb. It's just after 10:30pm and I'm sitting outside on the swing seat enjoying a lovely breeze and 30 degrees. So far, 2015 has been quite nice (aside from the part where I poured a newly bought, completely full bottle of Ilford Multigrade Paper Developer down the sink - stone cold sober - yesterday!) and, while I'm sure no one wants my hand-me-downs, I'll send today on to the rest of you to enjoy when you catch up

 

[polyglot]

43C and bushfires. There's one about 10km from my house, but going the wrong way. It got within 1km of a colleague's house and took their neighbour's house.

 

[Molli]

43C and bushfires. There's one about 10km from my house, but going the wrong way. It got within 1km of a colleague's house and took their neighbour's house.

Not good, Polyglot! I hope you and your family stay safe there.

 

[Xmas]

Not good, Polyglot! I hope you and your family stay safe there.

Confirmed!

 

[polyglot]

We evacuated at 4am with the fire about 2km away - cat, kids and negs all piled in the car. Our place will almost certainly be fine but a big wind change would change that pretty quickly.

Expecting another 38C+ day and possibility of high winds, just not sure of direction yet. The fire has burnt what looks like a couple hundred square kilometers and is heading south towards the more-populated sections of the hills.

 

[polyglot]

some news

 

[Dr Croubie]

We evacuated at 4am with the fire about 2km away - cat, kids and negs all piled in the car. Our place will almost certainly be fine but a big wind change would change that pretty quickly.

Expecting another 38C+ day and possibility of high winds, just not sure of direction yet. The fire has burnt what looks like a couple hundred square kilometers and is heading south towards the more-populated sections of the hills.

Wow, didn't know you were that close to it, hope everyone's made it out alive.

Looks like today is going to be horrendous, worst conditions since the Ash Wednesday Fires (a month before I was even born).
110km/h winds predicted, lightning strikes and thunderstorms with no rain. Huge fuel load. Water bombers can't see the fire to bomb it through all the smoke. Once the wind picks up they won't even be able to take off.
The wind's already turned a full 360 overnight and just kept burning more stuff, now it's back to coming from the northwest. At least it's going through relatively less-populated farmland and scrub for now and away from suburbia, but there's a chance it'll hit some larger towns near the freeway if the wind gets it going.

Quotes on the news are very pessimistic, "There is no way they can stop this fire under the current conditions and with the current fuel situation. They are not in fire fighting mode but are instead working to protect life."
"I don't think there's any other way you can make that announcement but to say with 110 km/h winds this fire will put out firefighters off the fire ground, it will put our aircraft on the ground. There won't be resources admitted to fire ground during this period. So we'll see again that this uncontrollable fire will continue to pick up speed and travel south. We have not been able to bring any part of it under control overnight."

"To put the fires into perspective, the Sampson Flat fire at yesterday afternoon at 4:00 pm (local time) was 154 hectares, as of this morning that fire is now 4,741 hectares with a perimeter of 38 kilometres."


You can even see the smoke on the weather radar:

I truly hope that everyone is out of the way of this thing, there's no stopping it besides making sure that you're not in front of it.

 

[BradleyK]

Sitting just above freezing at the moment (2-3C); a light dusting of snow on the mountain this morning and early afternoon. Cold but picturesque, so I loaded a roll of E100G in the F6 and went for an hour long stroll through the neighborhood and over to SFU, Finished the entire roll (some bracketing, given the snow), came home, brewed a pot of Starbucks Christmas Blend, warmed up, then went out again with the M6, a 50 Summicron and a roll of HP5+. Shot the better part of the roll; more "mixed precipitation" on tap for tomorrow, so more opportunities await. Temperatures are forecast to return to their seasonal "norms" by Monday; we will see...

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Istanbul was windy and sunny during last week. We call these winds karayel , black wind. Now its göne and today was the hottest day in 3 months past. Now it is ramadan and people stay hungry from 3AM to 9PM. My sister lives at Paris and she says hot and rainy.

N-1

 

[BradleyK]

Currently snowing again atop Burnaby Mountain. Up to 5cm according to the forecast. Methinks the 500c/m, a couple of lenses and a pair of PanF+ A12s will be out and about in the morning...