There are several wildfires in the San Diego area today. None within 10-20 miles of me, but you can see it in the air. Today's sunset was blood red. That's smoke in the background, not clouds.
Hey Denny - I am coming down to San Diego in a few weeks to give a speech and my fam is coming with me for a few days. When I was a kid, growing up in L.A., we used to vacation on Mission Bay. Is that area still nice? I haven't been down there in a loooong time. Any suggestions aside from the obvious like the Zoo? Thanks!
PB/MB is a great vacation/college town. In the summer, many of the homes rent by the week to vacationers. In the other 9 months, those rentals go long term (9 month) to college kids (UCSD, USD). The area has lots of bars and nightlife types of places that are attractive to both. Great food. The zoo is one of the best I've been to anywhere. Balboa Park has a lot of great museums - you can spend days there alone. Go to Coronado and rent bikes and ride around for the day. It's really hot here lately, so the beach is hopping. If you surf, you won't get bored at all. The water is already 62-64 degrees, so you can go in without a wet suit. Lots of people are doing that lately. My wife and I like to walk, so we'll go to Carlsbad (it's on fire though) and walk around the town there. Ocean Beach downtown is neat if you are into looking at antiques - there are maybe a dozen big antique shops there. And good food. And barfo ain't here, so it's great!
I took a few days off last year and stayed at Shelter Island. Pretty chill place to be. Not really that close to downtown though.
The winds are calm this morning so it seems like they'll get them all contained soon. Hopefully no more spark up though. I think today is supposed to be the hottest day yet. And the news just said the humidity is going to get down into the single digits.
Driving home yesterday traffic slowed to crawl by a fortunately small fire alongside the highway. 100 degrees in it's only mid May. Good thing global warming is a hoax, otherwise we might have severe drought and a terrible fire season in the west/southwest. Oh wait...
I know one hot day does not prove global warming, any more than one snowstorm refutes it. But yes, widespread drought and resulting fires? Exactly as predicted? I know that they are not just some coincidence.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/record-breaking-cold-winter-we/24831365 http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2014/2/ The average temperature for the contiguous U.S. during the winter was 31.3°F, 1.0°F below the 20th century average. This winter ranked as the 34th coldest winter on record and the coldest since 2009/10.
Bush installed ideologues to filter news releases from government scientists. You may have a job waiting for you in 2017, Denny.
Here's your filter. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...cCarthy-style-witch-hunt-academics-world.html
