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Friday, January 22, 2010

The Opposite of Sunny

According to the Goleta weather station we've gotten over 5" of rain this week. The initial storm fronts were quite narrow, so it would rain for 3 hours or so and then clear up. The one on wednesday initially did this, but the backside of it seems to have stalled, and there are little thunderstorm cells that have popped off every once in a while. Thursday morning was the first time I got rained on. Thursday night it started raining as I left the building, and stopped about 100 yards from my house -- I hadn't even put on my rain jacket. This morning my karma failed completely. It looked dry-ish, I even did laundry and have damp clothes strewn about the apartment to dry. I did have the jacket on for the bike ride, but a slow drizzle became hail. I tried to save time by cutting through campus instead of bikepathing it all the way. In going around a hipster couple sharing an umbrella I hit a bunch of rotten 'Victorian Box' tree fruit on the ground, and my front wheel washed out! Then on the ground my left foot wouldn't unclip for a few seconds. Funny and pathetic. So here I am at school, my right side is semi-covered in 'sticky golden-orange seeds.' Oh. And when I opened my backpack my yogurt container had exploded. It's just a #2 plastic greek yogurt container from TJs, but C gave it to me 3 years ago. C'est la vie. Anyway, here are the infrared satellite images for the past 3 days, I think they are thermal IR cloud top temperatures, but not sure.
Wednesday. Just after the front went through.
Thursday. Somehow the junk behind the front on Wed. became organized. Thursday was the rainiest day this week.
Friday. You can see the little thunderstorm cells that nailed me...

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