Normal Weather

Here in California, the weather mostly comes from the Pacific, sometimes from the north, sometimes from the south, but mostly from the Pacific. This weather was pretty typical. A north pacific low spinning counter-clockwise brought up heavy thunderstorm, complete with hail and lightning, from the southwest. The rain was intense when it fell and then it was over and the cold air from Alaska came in behind it. Cold air over saturated ground? Fog. That's the Sutter Buttes in a sea of tule fog. Its bitterly cold down there in this picture. I was standing in 48'F air, and it was already 8:00 AM at this point.

The relatively warm water from the rain also meant that runoff was warm, meaning the river is warmer than the colder air above it. Meaning fog. The South Yuba River, which is a couple canyons over from me, is full of fog.

The canyon below me is slate creek. The one where that line of fog runs is the Yuba River. Its about 9 miles or so. Cold air is generally clear after rains like this, so visibility is over 100 miles. When the fog burns off as the day warms up, it will get hazy and this picture perfect clarity will be lost.

Perfectly normal weather. What a shame the Global Warming Kult can't get all worked up today. Sad panda. They SO remind me of the hari krisnas at SFO in the 1980's. Nobody liked them either.