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The weather forecasters excitedly said that 4-7 inches of snow for the valley floor this Thursday.
It was a teaser, our first this year snow was only about one inch and it melted by noon.
This is a shot of the amount snow which dusted a small farm house near where i live.
It's an abandonment left over from early settlers in this area.
Near Helvetia in NW Oregon.
Saturday, 1 February 2020: our temperature is a balmy 7C (windchill 4C). Sunrise is at 8:13 am, and sunset is at 5:27 pm. Very overcast, and the forecast is a 70% chance of rain/snow this afternoon and snow this evening. Hopefully, it will miss my part of the city, as I washed my car yesterday. After two drives this last week on wet, muddy, gravel roads, my car was the same muddy brown colour as all our roads, and I needed to be more visible.
The 8 photos I have posted today were taken on Day 9 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, in March 2019. Not a very inspiring set of images, but I want to be able to include them in my South Texas albums. I still have a few more uninspiring images to upload, but then I will get to bird photos on Day 10. I won't be going on holiday anywhere this year, but really want to finish off this trip as soon as I can. The first few photos from Day 9 were added months ago.
On Day 9, we had an early start from Mission, so caught the beautiful sunrise. Unfortunately, my photos had to be taken from back in the vehicle, and through the windshield. Poor quality, but I posted them for the record a few months ago..
The approximate distance between Mission and Brownsville, where we were heading, is 106 km (65.8 miles) and travel time 1 hr 04 mins, travelling along US 83 and US 77. We stopped when we reached the western edge of Brownsville to visit the Resaca de la Palma State Park. The photos from this location were posted a few months ago.
"Resaca de la Palma State Park is one of three state parks belonging to the World Birding Center and managed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. At 1,200 acres, Resaca de la Palma State Park is the largest of the World Birding Center sites and is located in Brownsville. The property was acquired by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1977 and was opened to the public in December 2008. A resaca is a type of oxbow lake that can be found in Texas, and is a former channel of the Rio Grande. It is naturally cut off from the river, having no inlet or outlet.
The World Birding Center is the official title given to a combined nine parks and nature preserves in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas managed by a partnership of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the local communities in which the parks reside." From Wikipedia.
The six images posted this morning were all taken at the Visitor's Centre at Laguna Atascosa, our next stop of the day. This National Wildlife Refuge opened in 1946.
"The Laguna Atascosis National Wildlife Refuge is the largest protected area of natural habitat left in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. The 98,000-acre (400 km2) refuge is located almost entirely in Cameron County, Texas (near Harlingen), although a very small part of its northernmost point extends into southern Willacy County.
The Peregrine Fund began reintroducing captive-bred northern aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis septentrionalis) to the refuge in 1985, which had been nearly extirpated from the Southwestern United States; today, it is home to 26 pairs. Nine other endangered or threatened species inhabit the refuge, such as the Texas ocelot (Leopardus pardalis albescens) and Gulf Coast jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi cacomitli), rare wild cats.[3] Programs at the refuge include vegetation and wetland restoration." From Wikipedia.
We started our visit at the Visitor Centre, where there are a number of displays, including mounted Screech Owls, a Greater Roadrunner, and an Aplomado Falcon. The Refuge is on the coast, across the Laguna Madre from South Padre Island. We checked out the view from the edge of the Laguna Atascosa, but saw very little. I seem to remember there was a tiny speck out on the water - a Pied-billed Grebe, I think. Also a distant flock of White Ibis on the ground. We ate our lunch while enjoying the view, stopping just to take a few photos of a large, black beetle. At the Centre, we had been told about a pair of Screech Owls that were nesting in a cavity in a fence post. Despite taking a pile of photos of the round cavity, we still aren't sure if what we were seeing was the top of an owl head and ears, or just the texture of the wood inside the cavity.
The last place we visited on this day, on our drive north, was the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park.
"Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park near Brownsville, Texas is a National Park Service unit which preserves the grounds of the May 8, 1846, Battle of Palo Alto. It was the first major conflict in a border dispute that soon precipitated the Mexican–American War. The United States Army victory here made the invasion of Mexico possible. The historic site portrays the battle and the war, and its causes and consequences, from the perspectives of both the United States and Mexico." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Alto_Battlefield_National_Hist...
The weather forecast for the Saturday night SpaceX Starlink launch was less than ideal. The best forecast I could find called for 60% cloud cover, and the worst called for rain at the start of the 59-minute launch window, and it was drizzling at home ~60 minutes before launch. The official forecast for the launch called for a 55 or 60 percent chance of good weather, if I'm not mistaken.
And then there was the Moon. It was scheduled to rise ~45 minutes before launch, drawing me north to Titusville for a chance at a lunar transit of the Falcon 9 rocket.
The alignment didn't really work on the river, but at T minus 20 minutes, the Moon had yet to make its way through the persistent (but much thinner than expected) clouds. So, I opted for a chance at a streak with the Indian River for a foreground and hoped that if the Moon did prevail over the clouds, the prediction would be wrong, and I'd catch the transit, too.
In the end, the Moon and the clouds seem to have worked out a compromise, allowing just enough visibility for me to know that the rocket missed the Moon and to enough of a degree to see that I'd probably have also missed it if I were inland and a bit north as planned.
I shot this tight streak because I didn't think the rocket would be visible for long, but the clouds turned out thin enough for a nice wide streak; this streak is appealing as it shows that the transit was close but not too close.
(2x30-sec exposure composite)
Thursday, 6 February 2020: our temperature just before noon is 1C (windchill -3C). Sunrise is at 8:05 am, and sunset is at 5:36 pm. The forecast is for mainly sunny with cloudy periods in the afternoon. The clouds decided to come just a little bit early.
The 8 photos I have posted today were taken on Day 10 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, in March 2019. I won't be going on holiday anywhere this year, but really want to finish off this trip as soon as I can.
Because it has been about 10 months since we went on this holiday, I have to check maps for names of the locations we visited, and any other information I gathered. Thank goodness the photos I took with my Nikon P900 have the GPS data and automatically appear on the Flickr map. Then it is easy enough to add my Canon photos to the same marked locations.
This day started off with leaving the hotel that we had driven to on Day 9, the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, Brownsville, and driving to the first stopping place for Day 10. We stayed at this hotel for three nights, before having to drive all the way back to Houston on 30 March, ready to fly back home to Calgary.
Our early morning drive on Day 10 started off with driving in the wrong direction for quite a distance. One fun thing that happened as a result of this mistake, was that we spotted two beautiful Agave plants growing on either side of someone's front gate. We stopped in awe at the gorgeous orange flowers that grew from the tip of each leaf spike. I had never seen anything like these before and, once I got back to Calgary, I searched and searched on Google Images for photos that would give me an ID for these plants. Nothing - absolutely nothing - so I thought they must be something really unusual. Indeed, they were, lol! Some time after our return home, Anne B sent an email saying, guess what, these flowers were fake! She had looked at a close-up and could see the fabric lines and some frayed edges. A fun memory.
Once we were heading in the right direction, we drove east from Brownsville to Boca Chica, which is on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The first bird we saw was a Meadowlark, perched on top of a Yucca plant along the Boca Chica Highway. Closer to Boca Chica Beach, there were police vehicles, and at one place we were stopped by two men. One told us we could not go any further, but the second man told us we could go on. Managed to get a couple of very quick photos of Laughing Gulls on the beach, and then we were told to leave. Apparently, there was going to be some test at the SpaceX Space Launch Facility there. We were able to grab a couple of quick shots of the SpaceX prototype from the road, then quickly continued on our drive away from the area. Quite exciting.
"The SpaceX South Texas Launch Site is a spaceport and test at Boca Chica Village near Brownsville, Texas, for the private use of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX).
Its stated purpose is "to provide SpaceX an exclusive launch site that would allow the company to accommodate its launch manifest and meet tight launch windows." The launch site was originally intended to support launches of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles as well as "a variety of reusable suborbital launch vehicles",[4] but in 2018, SpaceX announced a change of plans, stating that the site would be used exclusively for SpaceX Starship. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicated in 2014 that he expected "commercial astronauts, private astronauts, to be departing from South Texas," and he foresaw launching spacecraft to Mars from there."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_South_Texas_Launch_Site
From Boca Chica, our next stopping place was the Sabal Palm Sanctuary. On the way there, we briefly stopped to take a few photos of a beautiful Harris's Hawk perched on a high wire. In order to get to the Sanctuary, we had to drive through an opening in "The Wall". I had really been hoping that, at some point, we would actually see a length of The Wall, having heard about it endlessly on TV.
"The Sabal Palm Sanctuary is a 557-acre (225-hectare) nature reserve and bird sanctuary located in the delta of the Rio Grande Valley in Cameron County near Brownsville, Texas. It is noted for being one of the last locations in the Rio Grande Valley with a profuse grove of sabal palms, an edible-heart-bearing palm much prized by pre-Hispanic inhabitants and noted by early explorers. As a relatively habitat-rich remnant of this Valley, it is a prized birdwatching and butterfly watching location for persons interested in the ecology of the Valley and adjacent states of northern Mexico.
The Sabal Palm Sanctuary closely approaches the southernmost point in the state of Texas, and is the southernmost point accessible to the public.
The Sanctuary occupies a parcel of the former Rabb Plantation, a 19th-century sugarcane plantation on the bank of the Rio Grande - at that time, a river deep enough to float light steamboats. The plantation's produce was shipped directly from the riverbank; the successful plantation's Queen Anne mansion, built by Frank and Lillian Rabb in 1891-1892, was adaptively remodeled in 2013 to serve as the Sanctuary's visitor center." From Wikipedia. The Mansion is a really fine building.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabal_Palm_Sanctuary
Our final stop of the day was South Padre Island, where we had many good sightings. We were planning to go there the following morning, but decided we had time to also call in at the end of Day 10.
....well, it was forecasted. Exactly the reason I went there to get me some rain photos with the 70-200 f/2.8. I find rain a very attractive weathertype to photograph. Just because not too many people get their cameras out in the rain!
In the digital era you have to do things like this to try to get a picture not many other people have.
Note: if you are in this photo and you want to be off the internet just mail me and it will be deleted.
Forecast for the following day was absolutely abysmal so plans for another hill were soon forgotten and we drowned our sorrows in beer...
After extensive research we decided on a late breakfast then we would head out and catch the bus to Australia.....
39° Cloudy with a chance of rain.
Cosina 55mm f/1.2 on GF-1
[ 0.02 sec (1/50) | f/1.2 | FLength 55 mm | ISO 400 | Manual exposure ]
As we all well know, forecasting is an inexact science. You might be spot on. You might be Michael Fish circa 1987. But one thing is for sure. Something will happen.
Probably.
Anyway, here's my forecast, for Sunday 19 November 2017.
With the possibility of two Tugs and two Grids in the area, there's likely to be a tidal wave of froth sometime around breakfast. Some localised blustering is likely, especially if either of the 60's centralises on an awkward location, at some point however, it will blow over.
Intermittent posting of pictures from long lenses and shaky outposts is likely to continue into the evening, with the odd squally cheesey comment thrown in for good measure.
These conditions are almost certain to continue into the week, but will die out as fresher conditions and photographs push to the east.
It's only a 1% chance, but thunderstorms of biblical proportion could be expected if we wake up to a possee of DB Sheds.
And that's the forecast.
60085, again! Sorry, but...
Rhyl, 12 November 2017.
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The forecast called for rain, so I wore galoshes all day. It didn't rain until 9 p.m., but I didn't mind. I love clomping around in these boots.
Jacket, London Jeans. Cardigan, Forever 21. Dress, Frederick’s of Hollywood. Boots, TJ Maxx. Bag, Tommy Hilfiger.
Lots of birds in the air tonight. Time to get out and look for new arrivals. Last week saw heavier migration. Check out Cornell Lab's migration forecasts at birdcast.info
Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts.
Our new idea for 2025 is showcasing Fashion Forecasts for the year - January is a cooler time with the deep winter in our Eastern states so time to cozy up with a wool coat and hat for all the winter time fun.
Mei is sporting this latest matching coat and hat that has a wonderful retro feel. Anything goes in the fashion world of the 21 century!
With the colds of winter it's also fun to sport brighter colors and Mei is matching with our fun Amaryllis that just started blooming.
Don't forget your boots that are a perfect pairing to keep your feet nice and warm!
Festival of Lights at The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens........
The forecast for December 3rd calls for a crisp, clear evening... A grand fireworks display will light up the night sky at this year's Gala, weather permitting.
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The Festival of Lights Gala is a special occasion offering a more intimate view of this glowing display. The grand event raises funds to allow all children age 16 and under free admission to the 2015 Festival of Lights.
This year’s Gala will be held Thursday, December 3 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm. Enjoy a merry evening including sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, a sizzling main course buffet, and sweet treats provided by local restaurants. Indulge in a selection of Mendocino County’s finest wines as you sway to the melodies of The Mendocino String Quartet. This year, guests of the Gala will also enjoy great surprises and prizes! Tickets are limited to this one-of-a-kind event so don’t delay. Click here for more information!
LIVE MUSIC NIGHTLY at Festival of Lights
11/27 Calvary Chapel Choir – Holiday Carols and Choral Music
11/28 Nancy Joy and the Whole Hearted – American
11/29 Sergei Bassehes – Classical Guitar
12/4 The Smokey Jalapeños – Blues, Regge, Americana, Celtic
12/5 The Dorian May Trio – Jazz
12/6 Fort Bragg High School Choir – Holiday Carols and Choral Music
12/11 The Groovinators – Blues, Jazz, Swing
12/12 The Groovinators – Blues, Jazz, Swing
12/13 Gabriel Yañez Trio – Jazz
12/18 Shug-A-Pea – Eclectic Contemporary
12/19 Pura Vida – Afro-Caribbean Salsa
12/20 Nancy Joy and the Whole Hearted – American
Santa Claus will be visiting Nov 27, Dec 12, and Dec 18!
Carts are available until 5:30pm. Dress for winter. No pets, please.
2015 Sponsorship Levels - For volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, contact the Gardens’ Administration office at 707-964-4352 ext. 10.
Overview
Start Date: Friday, November 27, 2015
End Date: Sunday, December 20, 2015
Schedule Details: Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
Payment Information: $10 adults; children age 16 and under FREE. Tickets are on sale now at The Garden Store, they will also be available for purchase at the door.
Contact
Contact: The Garden Store
Contact Email: info@gardenbythesea.org
Contact Phone: 707-964-4352 ext.16
Weather forecast was unclear at the night, a day after passage of typhoon Yun-Yeung. I drove my wagon 4 hours toward north. It was cloudy or rainy through the course, and I could view no stars. When I reached the site, sky was cloudy except small starry hole around the zenith. The ground was wet. Sky got clear, while I prepared two sets of my rig slowly. It was the first night for me to use the heavy equatorial mount, SkyWatcher CQ350 pro. I could find how to align the mount with the hand controller then.
Here is a 4K 360-degree timelapse movie taken at the site:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXuFewjgeA
It was clear almost all sky, though moon was in the sky, and city lights was in the east as you see. Zodiacal light was strong and glorious at the moment just before the beginning of twilight.
I could see nice cloud layer below the site after the end of imaging session. It was another nice morning. I drove down through fog.
After all, I could enjoy imaging of the comet during twilight in the morning. The object got low in the east northeast, 6.5 degrees above horizon at the beginning of 1st. exposure and 7.0 degrees at the end of 5th. exposure at 35 minutes after the beginning of twilight. This may have been the last chance for me here to detect the comet before the perihelion passage on September 18, 2023.
The comet was drifting fast toward east a bit southward in Leo. Ion halo was round and bright. Ion tail was long and showing multiple stream lines. White dust coma was not clear, and dust tail was not detected or overlapping with ion tail.
equipment: Ricoh THETA Z1 on a compact tripod on the ground
site: 1,460m above sea level at lat. 38 07 51 North and long. 140 27 51 East in Volcano Zao Katta-Dake Miyagi 宮城県 蔵王 刈田岳
Ambient temperature was around 17 degrees Celsius or 63 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild or none.
The forecast for today includes a winter storm warning so it seems somewhat appropriate to post my first Christmas card of the season. :)
Stay warm, and stay safe fellow Albertans.
Plenty of outdoor events in & around our city today.
We are hoping for the very best.
myck.ca/event/chatham-kent-flight-fest/
www.chathamdailynews.ca/news/local-news/public-works-trad...
myck.ca/event/habitat-for-humanity-2nd-annual-golf-tourna...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_glass
Strobist:
Canon 430EX II 1/2 power in softbox behind
YN600EX-RT with speed grid 1/16 power boomed overhead
YN622C triggers
Zebra M-flag
White cards camera left and right
Nikon D810 Fine Art Landscapes Bryce Canyon Utah Winter Snowstorm: Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape Photography
Well I was shooting fall colors in Zion National Park when I saw that they had forecast snow for Bryce Canyon, so instead of heading back to LA, I headed out to Bryce Canyon! And I was treated to snow, sun, clouds, snowstorm, and then a glorious sunrise over the s-capped hoo-doos in Bryce! :)
Sony A7RII Bryce Canyon & Zion National Park Autumn Dr. Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscapes
Been busy traveling and shooting landscapes and working on my books The Golden Hero's Odyssey about the golden rectangle and divine proportion I use in a lot of my compositions! Also working on my physics book on Dynamic Dimensions Theory! The equation d4/dt=ic is on a lot of the 45surf swimsuit and shirts and all! :)
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Here one can see the approaching snow storm which would make for beautiful snow-covered hoo-doos in Bryce Canyon later that day and the next morning! Beautiful Bryce Canyon Fine Art Sunrise!
Love the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED Lens for wide angle landscapes!
Our Economic Forceast event featured a panel of expert economists sharing their insight on where the economy is headed in 2011.
Photo by Julia Cumes
It will feel like 82F later today with thunderstorms then plunge into the 40's tomorrow & 30's overnight Saturday night!
I know some of you like the Shipping Forecast I was interested to learn via this board that it has been broadcast by the BBC since 1928. The Meteorological Office (Met 0ffice) was set up in 1854, by Vice Admiral Robert Fitzroy, as part of the Board of Trade. It was to look at ways of forecasting the weather to protect ships at sea. I found this board interesting and as I stood they had a recording of the Shipping Forecast playing. It is remarkable that the Shipping Forecast is still broadcast four times a day on Radio 4 and it is one of these things we do not want to lose.
If you would like a bit more history here is an eight minute clip; www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts7nGURT3Pw
The calm before the storm in Pocatello.
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The forecast was for a very pleasant afternoon in mid-March so we set up a small group shoot at a parking garage in downtown Boise. The weatherman lied. It was bitterly cold, windy, and then it snowed a bit. The poor models froze but toughed it out.
Sammy is a real trooper - she is definitely petite but full of adventure. She was shivering almost the whole shoot but never complained - and she looked beautiful doing it. I love shooting with her and we just click. The cool thing about this shoot was right at the end Sammy was so cold she grabbed her dog blanket for the car and we made it work - and it kept her warm. Life is good!
Speaker of the Arizona House Russell Bowers and Arizona House Minority Leader Charlene Fernandez speaking with attendees at the 2019 Legislative Forecast Luncheon hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
-- I stopped for a break but I fear I took too long, trusted the weather too much, expected to come out to clear skies. As I walk out i'm confronted with a beautiful sunset but looming clouds overhead that tell a different story. My heart skips a beat as I rush back to my journey hoping that I can beat the tempest brewing. But it's clear I will not, my skin crawls with the thought of the storm to come as I look up and realize that today comes with a dark forecast.--
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Body: Maitreya Mesh Body w/ Bento Hands
Head: Catwa Mesh Bento HEAD - Sofia
Skin: Studio Exposure CATWA LISA (HONEY) w/ body applier
Ears: ^^Swallow^^ Pixie Ears : Protruding
Hair: Doe: Gaz - Monotone Pack
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Outfit: imbue. lily sundress - lara - floral
Jewelry: Legal Insanity - MILF hoop earrings A #29
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Shoes: Essenz - Maldives (Pack 2) : Maitreya
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DRD - San Mora - Pile of Rubble - B & C
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SAYO - Summer in Santorini - Scooter (Blue)
D-LAB TOMATO JUICE refrigerator
D-LAB Beer refrigerator
--ANHELO-G06-04-185GA :: no smoking
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Had been watching the weather forecast about week ago (due the potential Weather event). In the last couple days, the snow totals they were forecasting kept going up an inch each day.
It was Sunday and I had checked the forecast and they were expecting 6 inches of snow (That kind of snowfall in one weather event is an absolute rarity here). It started flurrying just before 8pm. And accumulated overnight.
This morning it started to pick up in intensity right around 8am. Around 10am I went outside and swept our sidewalk and driveway with a broom. And also cleared off the car.
Sometime around 2pm my wife took the tape measure outside and measured almost 6 inches of snow. We still have several hours left of snowfall before it ends. We could easily end up with 8 or more inches!
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I checked my weather forecaster earlier this evening and it seems we are in for some snow starting from Sunday, which happens to be my 52rd birthday! They have been forecasting a big Icy cold blast for the last few days and its edging closer and closer. by the day. Winter is finally here!
this flower is so tenacious. the leaves have all fallen off the trees, there is frost on our windshields in the morning and some very chilly days, but here she is. hanging on
The weather has been rotten for a while now so when there was an improving forecast on saturday i took the opportunity to get out for a few hours and relieve some of the cabin fever that had been building.
Maybe not one of your more traditional seascapes but i liked the way the light caught the grass and the way in which it had been laid flat by crashing waves, leaving the pattern in which the water had flowed. it almost looks like water flowing over rocks.
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two shot vertical pano