Back to back meetings today....what a week! 🫠😵‍💫

Flood watches possible next wk: range ensembles/models continues to show high rain totals (esp. Sun-Wed) for the North Bay & local mtns. Most major rivers are fairly low ahead of this w/ the recent 3 weeks of dry weather, but sustained high rain rates could boost runoff. Stay tuned 12/18/2025

A bit of a storm today in Florence, Oregon! The rain is bad enough, but the wind is nearly unprecedented. Trees are down all over the region.

6️⃣ June Before the storm. #Amberg #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography 📷 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #ThePhotoHour #StormHour #ThursdayGreen #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast

Well the tule fog is back with a vengeance! #CAwx

Woohoo I see the sun!! 🌞 #CAwx

Soon it shall end.

Preliminary magnitude 4.0 at 3:30 pm followed by a 3.1 at 3:38 pm just west of Glen Ellen this afternoon and now a 3.4 near Kenwood at 4:04 pm. Shaking intensity up to V locally (yellow) on the threshold of knocking down unsecured items and minor damage. @nbcbayarea 12/14/2025 #SantaRosa

Preliminary magnitude 4.0 at 3:30 pm followed by a 3.1 at 3:38 pm just west of Glen Ellen this afternoon and now a 3.4 near Kenwood at 4:04 pm. Shaking intensity up to V locally (yellow) on the threshold of knocking down unsecured items and minor damage. @nbcbayarea 12/14/2025

Ever seen squishy in-situ grus? The granodiorite boulder I was standing on was severely weathered on the top, but very few minerals had eroded off. Instead, I think early Nov. rains made the clay (derived from decomposed feldspar) swell and stick other minerals crystals together. Even the enclaves!

The Militant is in #WoodlandHills checking out the new location of the 101 #NightMarket at Topanga Canyon & Oxnard, featuring 26 vendors, happening every Fri-Sun night! BONUS: A view of tonight's rocket launch from Vandenberg from the market! #SFV

Here’s a zoomed-in view that I hope @bsky.app doesn’t compress into oblivion.

Sidewalk Christmas Arches...done!

Leftovers...pizza and bbq...🤤

Chinook salmon have now been spotted in the upper Alameda Creek watershed! This is the first time the salmon have accessed this area of their own accord since the 1950s, says CalTrout. 📸: Chinook salmon by Dan Sarka www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Please make a gift for the mountain to help us continue our conservation momentum through next year, and beyond. Because of you, Save Mount Diablo and its partners have nearly tripled the size of Mount Diablo State Park since 1971. Thank you! savemountdiablo.org/donate 📸: @heinphoto.bsky.social

Good news for nature! A new study found that recorded extinctions peaked ~100 years ago, especially for plants and some animals. We may be able to avoid the worst of our mass-extinction fears. ➡ www.wienslab.com/Publications_files/Saban_Wiens_PRSL_2025.pdf 📸: Scott Hein

Happy International Mountain Day! Mountains have deep meaning to people, including here in the Bay Area. On Pearl Harbor Day, people look to Mount Diablo to see the Beacon be lit in honor of our veterans. 📸: Ted Clement

The final decision in our lawsuit against the city of Dublin has been made—we won! The open space between Dublin and Livermore remains protected, the Dublin Urban Limit Line will remain intact, and the Crosby property can’t be developed commercially.

The wayback machine! Toby the Turt doing turtle yoga! #AlaskaPets

Brett's photos are so amazing! I have never gotten anywhere close to this in twelve years of photographing pelicans. 🪶

Got #CicLAvia withdrawals? Can't wait 'til 2026? Head on over to #CityTerrace in #EastLos this weekend for #CaminoCityTerrace - their #CicLAmini-type #OpenStreets event from 11am-3pm Sat & Sun! It's SoCal's 1st 2-day ciclo ever! The Militant may or may not be there both days!

The Militant has to be in down in #OrangeCounty today for some reason, but why not also check out 17th Night Market in #SantaAna? 30 vendors every Fri-Sun from 6-10:30pm on Westminster Ave, E of Harbor Bl! #OC #NightMarkets

Smoked brisket tamales?!? Say no more!! 🤤 youtu.be/-qmSuoq-eO4?...

My Buddy lives in Snohomish and the river has just surpassed its record flood. Observed numbers are running slightly higher than the model.

Sigh

Typically, in December the mountains are coldest but today its mid 70s with fog cooled 40s inland. That flip-flop is known as a temperature inversion (warm/sinking air above) which acts like a lid to trap smoke/particulates which give a boost to inland formation. (1/2) 12/9/2025 #CAwx

Being an adult means realizing that Tim Curry wasn’t the villain in Home Alone 2. He was actually the most responsible adult in the movie. The parents were the villains. I said what I said.

DID YOU KNOW? The Los Angeles TV designated market area, as defined by the Nielsen Media Research, comprises of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Kern and Inyo counties in California...and Esmeralda county, Nevada(!)

Good morning! 🪶

🎁 The @modbee.com worte a decent factual accounting of the last California Great Flood that started with an atmospheric river OTD in 1861 and continued raining for 40 days in a row. Nearly 37” of rain fell in Sacramento. My nitpicks of article below: www.sacbee.com/news/local/a...

BUENOS DIAZ, FANATICOS! 🎺 #Dodgers #MLBHotStove

CalFire Firefighters saved a kitten. 💕🐾

The Militant is watching the #LARams game and just remembered the Thanksgiving turkey leftovers in the freezer... ...So he whipped up a batch of homemade salsa and some Tacos de Pavo! 🦃🌮

When the trend of the ensembles shows this upper air pattern early next week, its easy to not be bullish on rain. This tends to favor rain farther north and note the high building back in after. Even a 'near miss' though will hopefully generate more wind to help w/ fog & air quality issues.

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A glorious evening 😍

From the famous #ChristmasTreeLane Model Railroad House in #Altadena on Saturday (That 2nd passenger car 👀): They are open to the public every Saturday 5-10 p.m. until January 3 (As well as on #Christmas Day)! 2085 Santa Rosa Ave, Altadena.

Why so dry? Why so foggy? Persistent high pressure is the root cause for both and it looks like we may be stuck in this pattern a little while longer. #CAwx 12/6/2025 @nbcbayarea.com

We had a glorious day in 62F sunshine cutting our Christmas tree today. We also saw three handsome bucks in the Rim Fire burn scar.

The Militant is in #Altadena for the first time in 11 months (just a few days before the #EatonFire) for the first night of #ChristmasTreeLane's illumination for the season, now with even more meaning as a beacon of hope to a community that has felt so much pain this year.

Good morning! 🪶

Grey wolf

Scripps's murrelet. These little guys breed in the Channel Islands off of California. 🪶

I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶

Brown pelican balancing on the edge of a rubber trash can on a bait barge. So funny! 🪶