Another obsessive interest of mine is weather. I make no bones about it. Sometime soon I will be launching something weather related, just because I can. Anyway, the storm that is pounding California is a whopper. It’s lowest buoy barometric pressure reading was 28.78 inches of mercury. For those who are accustomed to tracking hurricanes in millibars, that translates to 974 millibars. And that my friends is incredibly impressive. In fact, you have to go back 100 years to find a storm of that strength hitting California.
What that means in laymans terms is that the weather is going to be miserable. It’s going to be very very windy – 122mph has already been clocked. And it’s going to rain a ton. Yep, some places have already gotten a foot of rain. It’s like a veritable winter hurricane. Yes, a category 2 hurricane has a pressure reading in the 965–979 millibar range.
Baton the hatches.
Photo: courtesy of NASA
