Weather
posted in Alaska, Arizona |Small Mountain University Town is under a red flag warning. The Big Ditch has a Big Fire going near the entrance town Tusayan. A large fire on the outskirts of Los Angeles has come and gone on the national news scene. The Valley of Death (Phoenix) had record low humidity readings the other day, of 2%. It’s fire season in the southwest…which means it’s warm, dry, and windy.
Chez OmegaMom, it’s cool and moist. I’m actually seeing some leaf buds on our trees, so expect a haze of green to be showing in a few days. It’s about time. We’re hoping that this weekend we’ll be able to put in the veggie garden beds.
When OmegaDad and I first met in Los Alamos, one of the things that charmed us about the highlands of northern New Mexico was the way that the moisture rising up from the Rio Grande would form into clouds that billowed up over the edge of the plateau we were on. Here in Suburban Alaska, we have similar clouds forming over the Little Lady River, and over the Turnaround Arm of the ocean…and, of course, fog from the inlet. We don’t often get the fog here, but as we drive down towards Suburban Downtown (hah), or towards Small Town Alaska, you can see the fog rolling up the inlet and rivers and coiling around the base of the snow-capped mountains.
So at least we don’t have to worry about fire season any more, not for ourselves. But we have friends and family still in that area, and when the red flag warnings go up, so does our attention.
