Most of the readers that frequent Desert Weather and who have read my posts know that I am an early riser. Not wanting to water my garden in the heat of the afternoon I do this around 2AM before work. This morning as I was outside there was something strange on my skin. It wasn’t [...]

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This GOES-11 satellite image shows the smoke plum from the Butler II fire near Big Bear. Notice how narrow the plum is and how it stretches northeast up to Utah!

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These clouds were stationary for most of the late afternoon and until dusk. Matt from Weatherbus.com has added an excellent explanation of this in the comments.

another over the San Jacinto mountain peak…

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On this day in…
2004: Severe thunderstorms in Borrego Springs produced one inch hail that broke windows. Strong winds gusted to 60 mph before the anemometer was destroyed, and knocked down six power poles. Training thunderstorms over Johnson Valley produced severe flash flooding. Hwy. 247 was washed out in numerous sections. Minor damage to homes occurred [...]

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