Weather Change Coming

 Please make it rain:

Numerous Northern California cities crushed daily heat records in recent days. The weather service’s Sacramento office tweeted that Wednesday marked five consecutive days for Stockton breaking or tying a record-high temperature mark. The city peaked at an astonishing 78 degrees on Monday, breaking the previous high for that date by 9 degrees.

Downtown Sacramento set new records Jan. 13 (69 degrees, up from a record of 67), this past Sunday (72, up from 70) and Monday (74, up from 70). It also tied a record-high 71 degrees on Saturday.

Wind gusts were also extraordinarily strong, especially in the greater Bay Area. The NWS Bay Area office said it recorded peak winds of at least 54 mph in San Francisco, over 80 mph at Mount Diablo and over 90 mph in the Mayacamas Mountains in the North Bay early Tuesday morning.

It was so windy that it forced the closure of Yosemite National Park.

San Francisco also smashed a heat record Monday, reaching 76 degrees. The previous high for Jan. 18 was just 70 degrees, set 101 years earlier.

Been Writing a Breaking Bad Related Screenplay

 For fun.  Strange stuff.

Angus Young Interview

Interesting interview about playing in a rock-and roll band - namely, AC/DC.

 

And other musicians admire him.

 

Randy Rainbow - Seasons of Trump

Rio Grande Difficulties - Las Cruces

Interesting article about drought in New Mexico, particularly about Las Cruces:

In the past, the Rio Grande would run through Las Cruces for the irrigation season from February to October. But last year, the river didn’t flow until March, and was dry by September. In 2021, the Elephant Butte Irrigation District (Ebid), in charge of measuring and releasing water to Las Cruces from upstream dams, estimated that water levels will be so low they won’t arrive until June and it will probably be gone again at the end of July. 

A finite amount of water flows through the Rio Grande every year, so when there are shortages, every city along the river is affected. Due to climate change, hotter and drier seasons are reducing the snowpack that melts to feed the Rio Grande, and rising temperatures are increasing evaporation from the reservoirs. Because of this, the river has had just seven years with a “full supply” of water in the past 20, and only two in the past decade.

Ballroom Dance Memories

When I was doing ballroom dancing in Arizona in 1982-83, there was a definite hierarchy of dancers. And they are all here! Ron Montez and Liz Curtis were on top, with the other dancers arrayed below. I can glimpse my dance teacher (now known as Margaret Mitchell) and her partner too.

   

 I haven't seen my dance teacher in 37 years. She is featured on page 60 here, and also here.

Interesting podcast with guest Ron Montez.

Bernie!

Albuquerque Angle

Run The Bastard Couy Griffin Out!

Link

Lady Gaga Sings The National Anthem So Well!

Calm Before The Storm

This is among the warmest Januarys in Sacramento history. And among the driest too. Changes are coming next week, thankfully. We haven't had a significant rain yet this rainy season, and the rainy season is half over. There are scattered fires present in California. In January. At the height of the rainy season. 

At Sacramento Executive Airport, yesterday's average temperature was 12 degrees F higher than average. Stockton's Airport had a high temperature of 72 degrees F: an all-time record for the date. 

Sacramento never had a January with an average temperature of 51 degrees Fahrenheit or more until 1970, but because of Global Warming, they are coming more and more frequently: 1970, 1976, 1986, 1995, 1998, 2003, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, and maybe 2021 when the dust settles. 

For January so far, at Sacramento Executive Airport, 0.27 inches have rain have fallen. Since October 1st, 2.35 inches of rain have fallen, about 28% of normal. 

If it rains like crazy next week, maybe can improve our statistics into the just mediocre range.

Been Watching Financial Crisis Videos

This one, from 2008, is interesting. Focusing on Hank Paulson makes for good TV. Things almost stopped working entirely. May we never get that close again. 

Wow, James Was Featured On Wolf Blitzer Last Night

 James had a bigger reach than I realized.

And this local article too.

James Stanley Chávez Glica-Hernandez (birthname Teódolo Conrado Arroyo Herrera) born on July 17, 1959, died due to complications of COVID-19 on Jan. 10, 2021 in Woodland, where he resided since 2012.

Glica-Hernandez was the owner of Sacramento Vocal Music and the principal music director at the Woodland Opera House. He also was vocal director at Natomas Charter School’s Performing and Fine Arts Academy where his students meant so much to him.

Glica-Hernandez was a nine-time nominated, and four-time Elly Award winner for musical direction. He has also been nominated four times for a Chesley Award. Additionally, he was a composer, arranger and performer.