A new word to me, but easy enough to figure out. Most of the last two weeks, although most of us couldn't see the fire area, we So. Californians have been seeing these large white clouds over the fire area. You can see the inversion layer below and the updraft from the flames as they poke this gigantic cloud 20,000 feet up through the layer.
We damn near lost the Mt. Wilson observatory which I've always wanted to go see but just never seemed to have the time to. You can bet when things settle down, I'm saddling up the motorcycle and taking a jaunt up there very soon.
That's a DC-10 dumping PhosCheck on the fire,
a real exciting thing to be seen.
Watching Skycranes suck up a few tons of water out of the local creek
is also a thrill.
The LA bason as seen from space.
The island in the bottom of the picture is Catalina.
Long Beach is at about one o:clock of the island
at the top of the crook in the land.
All too soon, fire season will be over
and earthquake season will arrive once again.
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