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[*] posted on 3-11-2006 at 04:49 PM
Batten down the hatches!


Yikes,

After a night, morning and early afternoon of rain and winds gusting to 35 mph+, at 2:30 pm this afternoon, we actually got some blue sky.

Now, its 3:45 pm, just got back from walking the dogs, the sky is black, black, black; wind is increasing, thunder thundering and there is a 20 mile wide stormfront on the water horizon rapidly approaching landfall.

Got to go get another sweater :o :o




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[*] posted on 3-11-2006 at 07:46 PM
Well.


At 2:30pm this date we got hail that made the hot coffee I had bought turn into iced coffee before I got to the car.--Yep!In San Diego



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[*] posted on 3-11-2006 at 07:48 PM


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Yikes,

After a night, morning and early afternoon of rain and winds gusting to 35 mph+, at 2:30 pm this afternoon, we actually got some blue sky.

Now, its 3:45 pm, just got back from walking the dogs, the sky is black, black, black; wind is increasing, thunder thundering and there is a 20 mile wide stormfront on the water horizon rapidly approaching landfall.

Got to go get another sweater :o :o



Jan, Where are you reporting this weather from??? :?:




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[*] posted on 3-11-2006 at 08:23 PM
Medio Camino (halfway btwn TJ & Ensenada)


on the Pacific coast.

37 miles below the border, on the oceanfront.

Oceanfront weather is a lot harsher than what hits the inland areas, because the warmer landmass breaks up and disperses the energy of the oncoming weather front.

[Edited on 3-12-2006 by Gypsy Jan]




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[*] posted on 3-11-2006 at 09:49 PM
Hail on the oceanfront?


Yes, we getting periodic hits of hail tonight at 8:45 pm



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[*] posted on 3-11-2006 at 11:13 PM


Jan-- Thanks! I think when I want a forecast for La Salina, I`ll just ask you. :?:
Hoping to get down to fish Wed, Thurs, and Fri.. Need the wind to stay below 10MPH till about noon or so. But come Hell or high water (like today), I`m getting out there!!
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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 07:41 AM


For the first time this year, I look out the west windows and the entire length of the Sierra San Pedro Matir is white.

[Edited on 3-12-2006 by bajalou]




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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 08:51 AM
Hmm...nice western view, bajalou


This is the western view at the great-grandparent's ranch....also white. Those are our grandkids making a snowslide out of some snowplowing I had to do to feed the cattle. (I think my lens filter is wrong!...it is not that blue here!)



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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 11:53 AM
Not as far north as Pompano


My back yard.




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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 11:54 AM


Here is another




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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 02:43 PM
Corky...


..get the mukluks on the kids and get them out there on the carousel!

Hmmm?..Y'know, I think I may have seen those hills and breaks before. Got a few mule deer bounding through them?

Just before leaving Coyote Bay I took this morning shot of our backyard. I call this 'Coyote Bay Cloudy'....which is also a favorite c-cktail I enjoy from time to time.

Coyote Bay Cloudy: tall glass of ice - whiskey - soda - dash of coke. Take out on patio and sip slowly until dinner bell rings.




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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 03:31 PM
Damn, pomp...


you'd make a great bartender,that sounds like a nice treat:yes:



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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 03:38 PM
eetdrt88...I was a bartender in college..


..and still can mix one for you...here ya go. Please excuse the extra coke splash.



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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 05:53 PM


Sounds like a tee shirt I saw for sale recently:

"I like my women like I like my whiskey;
Twelve years old and mixed up with coke."

Hey, it wasn't me- it was the tee...




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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 07:31 PM
having a little concoction...


my wife makes...a mixture of tequila(El Tesoro),grapefruit juice,soda,limon,and Grand Marnier over crushed ice...pretty damn good:spingrin:



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[*] posted on 3-12-2006 at 07:36 PM


Great fun in the snow today with Baja Angel and Chris... Went up Palomar via Nate Harrison Grade (dirt) then down to Lake Henshaw and out via Ramona. Snow down to Lake Henshaw shoreline... San Diego winter wonderland.... Very rare to see so much white down here!
Brought back a bunch to Oceanside for snowman on front lawn!

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[*] posted on 3-13-2006 at 08:40 PM


Wow Corky!!

Looks a little different than the other day when I got the camper...Glad you got the weather you were waiting for, glad I missed it!!

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[*] posted on 3-14-2006 at 03:59 PM


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For the first time this year, I look out the west windows and the entire length of the Sierra San Pedro Matir is white.

[Edited on 3-12-2006 by bajalou]


Lou, that is one fine picture. And it is an answer to a question I had been meaning to ask you. We'll see how much snow is left when I go for the peak first weekend of May.




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[*] posted on 3-14-2006 at 09:16 PM


It'll be interesting to see what next weekend's storm brings. Now it appears that the heavyest snow is on the peaks to the south of Diablo.

But - I'm thinking you'll be seeing some.




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[*] posted on 3-14-2006 at 11:12 PM


So, has there been enough rain mid-peninsula to make any flowers this year? We are headed to San Ignacio in 2 weeks, hoping for some color in the desert.
Las Vegas paper yesterday said the wildflowers in Death Valley and Nevada deserts were the least in recent years.
(and the P.A. guy at LVMS on Saturday for the Busch race said "it was snowing at press box level at 8 a.m." Man it was cold, and they ran the race late so they could finish under the lights.... brrrrrrr)
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