Just south of Mission Bay
La Jolla
This may be a whale. There were about seven or eight of these indeterminate spots visible off the coast of San Diego. This year seems to be a
good year for the whale migration too:
Marine biologists say there have been nearly 170 sightings of gray whales this month alone -- that's more than four times the normal number - and they're drawing plenty of oohs, ahhs and wows from whale watchers.
Biologists and local whale-watchers say they haven't seen whales in numbers like this in almost 30 years.
Long Beach. I can see a ship berthed where we departed for Mexico in November, 2010 aboard the Princess Sapphire (visible as a small white rectangle, center bottom). I wonder if that ship IS the Princess Sapphire?
Downtown Los Angeles
Hollywood (above) and Beverly Hills (below), with the Wilshire Blvd. corridor easily visible (right, lengthwise), and Santa Monica Blvd. (left).
Beautiful downtown Burbank.
Our airliner was casting a shadow on the hazy clouds below (bottom). In addition, at about our level, there was an unusually-dark haze layer. The darkness is probably due to unusually large droplets (featuring forward Mie-scattering of sunlight, rather than backscattering). In addition, the haze is probably getting an unusual dollop of black carbon from airline exhaust too, seeing that it's at our level. Add the two effects together and you get a dark haze layer that extended most of the length of California.
The Tehachapi Mountains.
The cooling towers associated with the natural-gas fired power plant adjacent to the shuttered Rancho Seco nuclear power plant are generating just the cutest-looking cumulus cloud you ever saw!
Highway 99 and Grant Line Road.
Sacramento County Wastewater facilty, near Elk Grove.
The Pocket area (foreground) and downtown Sacramento (background)
Downtown Sacramento
The Yolo Bypass is so pretty this time of year (the I-80 Yolo Causeway cuts across the picture at top).
Power pylons march northwards (NE of Davis).
I-5 Veteran's Memorial Bridge over the Sacramento River.
I-5 just east of Woodland, and the Sacramento Airport.
Oxbow of the Sacramento River, NE of Woodland and downstream from Knight's Landing.
Oxbow cutoff.
Sacramento Slough.
Sacramento airport's new Terminal B, with the dark haze layer behind it.
Sacramento Airport Terminal B's Big Rabbit.
Just south of Mission Bay
La Jolla
This may be a whale. There were about seven or eight of these indeterminate spots visible off the coast of San Diego. This year seems to be a good year for the whale migration too:
Long Beach. I can see a ship berthed where we departed for Mexico in November, 2010 aboard the Princess Sapphire (visible as a small white rectangle, center bottom). I wonder if that ship IS the Princess Sapphire?
Downtown Los Angeles
Hollywood (above) and Beverly Hills (below), with the Wilshire Blvd. corridor easily visible (right, lengthwise), and Santa Monica Blvd. (left).
Beautiful downtown Burbank.
Our airliner was casting a shadow on the hazy clouds below (bottom). In addition, at about our level, there was an unusually-dark haze layer. The darkness is probably due to unusually large droplets (featuring forward Mie-scattering of sunlight, rather than backscattering). In addition, the haze is probably getting an unusual dollop of black carbon from airline exhaust too, seeing that it's at our level. Add the two effects together and you get a dark haze layer that extended most of the length of California.
The Tehachapi Mountains.
The cooling towers associated with the natural-gas fired power plant adjacent to the shuttered Rancho Seco nuclear power plant are generating just the cutest-looking cumulus cloud you ever saw!
Highway 99 and Grant Line Road.
Sacramento County Wastewater facilty, near Elk Grove.
The Pocket area (foreground) and downtown Sacramento (background)
Downtown Sacramento
The Yolo Bypass is so pretty this time of year (the I-80 Yolo Causeway cuts across the picture at top).
Power pylons march northwards (NE of Davis).
I-5 Veteran's Memorial Bridge over the Sacramento River.
I-5 just east of Woodland, and the Sacramento Airport.
Oxbow of the Sacramento River, NE of Woodland and downstream from Knight's Landing.
Oxbow cutoff.
Sacramento Slough.
Sacramento airport's new Terminal B, with the dark haze layer behind it.
Sacramento Airport Terminal B's Big Rabbit.
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