Fucking California
So my little weather channel status bar on Firefox is showing an alert. A red triangle with a yellow exclamation point in the middle. In Iowa this meant thunderstorms blowing out windows, hail as big as baseballs, town destroying tornadoes, floods sweeping away SUVs, white out blizzards or ice storms shutting down the world. Here in San Francisco…wind, maybe some rain. I’m finding it difficult to take anything seriously out here. Well, anything other than the extreme violence lingering all about.
…LATE SUMMER RAINFALL POSSIBLE DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK…
AUTUMN DOES NOT OFFICIALLY BEGIN FOR NEARLY A WEEK…NOT UNTIL 2:51 AM SUNDAY MORNING. BUT AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG WEATHER SYSTEM ORIGINATING IN WESTERN CANADA WILL PRODUCE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS OUR REGION LATER THIS WEEK THAT WILL BE MORE TYPICAL OF LATE FALL THAN LATE SUMMER.
A DEEP UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO DROP SOUTH INTO CALIFORNIA ON WEDNESDAY. GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ON WEDNESDAY AND TEMPERATURES WILL COOL TO LEVELS WELL BELOW NORMAL… ESPECIALLY FOR INLAND AREAS. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BE RATHER DRY…BUT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP IN THE NORTH BAY BY LATE ON WEDNESDAY. BY WEDNESDAY NIGHT…SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL SPREAD SOUTH THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND INTO THE MONTEREY BAY AREA AND BLUSTERY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE.
THE LOW WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTH AND BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY RAIN CHANCES WILL PRIMARILY BE FOCUSED OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF OUR FORECAST AREA. BUT COOL AND LOCALLY BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE IN ALL AREAS. THE WEATHER SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE OFF TO THE EAST BY SATURDAY AND TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO WARM OVER THE UPCOMING WEEKEND.
PERSONS LIVING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CHANGE AROUND MIDWEEK. EVEN LIGHT AMOUNTS OF RAIN WILL RESULT IN SLIPPERY CONDITIONS ON ROADWAYS DUE TO MONTHS OF DRY WEATHER ALLOWING OIL RESIDUES TO BUILD UP. THOSE PLANNING HUNTING OR CAMPING TRIPS INTO THE HILLS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR COOL AND BLUSTERY WEATHER WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS.