July 18, 2007
Singin' In the .01" of Rain
It's a record-breaking day! It has never in the history of the world (or, rather, in the history of weather record-keeping) rained on a July 18th before in the Bay Area.
The .01 inches of rain that's fallen has, naturally, rendered swaths of the East Bay without power, with 40 separate outages and about 10,000 in El Cerrito, Berkeley, and El Cerrito Richmond affected. Basically, the dust on top of the transformers get wet, turns into mud, and the low levels of rain are insufficient to wash off the mud, so the mud gets trapped in the transformer and the transformer shorts out. (A power line is also down at Ashby and MLK. Wow, .01" of rain can take down a power line?)
The skies should clear later this morning, it'll be cool today, and warm up for the weekend.
Gene Kelly singin', and dancin', in the rain.
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Was it really rain? or just unusually heavy fog? Is there a point where the latter turns into the former?
"...El Cerrito, Berkeley, and El Cerrito..."
wow, el cerrito AND el cerrito? this is worse than i had feared.
-bonk
The streets were actually wet South of Palo Alto today, with puddles.
Richmond! That was supposed to be Richmond! (I was trying to decide whether to list the cities north to south or south to north and got distracted midway through the sentence.) Correction forthcoming!