COVID-free Spaces in Pandemic Places: Coping with COVID-19 across California
As the COVID-19 pandemic peaks again in the fall and drags on into winter, 2020, it is our duty to provide this update, our latest attempt to make a...
NASA Uses Science and Technology to Display Awesome Weather Images
By late September, 2020, NASA had built some remarkable images (using the latest remote sensing technologies) displaying how our biomass in California was burning into the atmosphere. They show...
California Burning, 2020
A few months ago, in the spring of 2020, we shared stories about our oddly inverted 2019-2020 rainy season and the longer-term climate changes impacting California. As we slid...
Great Volcanoes of Northern California
Devastating earthquakes, floods, droughts, fires, and now a deadly virus: nature has thrown her share of disasters our way over the years. But there is one potential catastrophe that...
But it’s a dry heat …
According to the National Weather Service, on 08/16/2020, the weather station at Furnace Creek in Death Valley recorded a temperature of 130°F (54.4 °C). That is probably the hottest...
Climate Change in California: Questions and Answers
The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us of the disturbing problems that have developed in our relationships with nature within and beyond our state. We are also reminded how our responses...
Measuring Climate Trends in California
In the spring of 2020, National Weather Service Senior Meteorologist Todd Hall presented a statistical analysis of reliable weather records across southern California from the late 1800s and early...
Another Bizarre California Rainy Season: 2019-2020
During the last ten years, many regions in California have experienced record-breaking extremes that have included some of the wettest and driest years on record. The 2019-2020 rainy season...
Bill Bowen Maps California’s Many Faces
In this story that has necessarily expanded with unfortunate current events, you are invited to compare the following maps that illustrate how education, ethnicity, and politics combine to mold...
COVID-19 Update: Divisions Resurface in the Golden State
During the past six weeks, California has arguably changed faster than at any time in history. We started with what seemed to be a concerted effort to eliminate the...
