Rick wrote this morning:
June 6, 2009 Sat.
D-Day Europe, 1944. The beginning of the end for Fortress Europe.
After three weeks of heat, culminating in this week's temps into the low 90s, a transitional period blew into town on Thursday evening with hot high velocity wind events, "micro bursts."
This morning it's all collapsed like a soap bubble and clouds and rain have arrived with temps in the mid-fifties.
Yesterday, Friday, June 5, was the fifth and next to last BCG "instillation" and I'm also on call for the poor beleaguered Water District #19.
The heat has driven the treatment plant mercilessly, running both filters nearly 24 hours a day to keep up. Additionally, we shut the wells off for a month on May 10th as we do every year in order to monitor the aquifer levels. Usually this is okay because usually we don't have any serious dry weather until maybe a week or so in July and/or August, but this year we got ambushed.
This year is not a La Nina or an El Nino year it appears. I've heard it referred to as a once-in-a-blue-moon occasion which has to be called an "El Nada" year; that is to be presumed as a whole year when nothing is predictable, weather-wise.
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