12:15 pm – up to .80″ so far today. Currently raining at the rate of 2.72″ an hour. Lordy!
Here is the radar from about 10 am – there are branches, bushes, and sparking wires on roadways in MoCo and SC Co. I’m sure there are rocks on Highway One in Big Sur, but nothing specific reported. It’s about to begin again.
The top photo shows water breaking over the fence line and onto the 17 Mile Drive at Cypress Point.
The bottom image is Bird Rock in the Del Monte Forest along the 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach today. The swell dwarfed the rock.
8:30 am – I currently have a mixture of sun, clouds, and thunder – only one, but loud! I got almost 3/4″ yesterday, and another .16″ this morning. We are at 1.30″ for the month, and 6.30″ for the year.
If Mike Morales is able to get any sun this am up his way in Carmel, he will be out grabbing some big waves shots for your viewing this afternoon. 33′ at Point Sur at 11 pm last night! I’ll also be updating this weather report as necessary, throughout the day.
Save the date! The Big Sur Coast Property Owners Association will conduct its 2015, year-end Annual Meeting on Tuesday, December 15th from 5:30 PM until 7:30 PM at the Big Sur Grange Hall.
NEW INFO: Ms. Casey Lucius, one of the announced candidates for the US Senate seat now held by Sam Farr will introduce herself at this meeting. You may ask questions and get some insight on her positions to issues as they may affect the Big Sur Community.
Representatives from the US Forest Service will be on hand to report and take questions from the audience on news and issues affecting local residents.
Supervisor Potter will be on hand as well as a Monterey County Planning Official to update the new Short Term Rental ordinance process.
State Senator Bill Monning has been invited and may attend if possible. There will also be an update on the community process for aligning the California Coastal Trail through the Big Sur planning area.
All Big Sur residents are encouraged to attend.
8:30 am – It began at 3 am, soft, gentle, only s few sprinkles. By Dawn, it was only .04″. After 7 am, it picked up, but while still gentle, it was steady. It is up to .31″ so far. Nice. The reports I read indicated this would start this afternoon. Caught me, but I was ready anyway. Nice fire going … Started the back up genie for a couple hours to make sure I have power all day, and all but one of the dogs inside. Have unseen movies, but need more books for winter. Recommendations gladly accepted.
PNW to get hammered, and Northern Cali, too. Here on the Central Coast, we will be less so. This storm to last through Friday, with temps dropping, another one Sunday through Monday with temps continuing to drop and snow possible by Monday. And so it begins … The parade of winter storms under the direction of El Niño 2015-2016.
Daniel Swain, of Weather West, whose great blog is found here, has confirmed that this week El Niño is making its way into Northern California. He has this to say:
“First, I want to reassure everyone that reports of El Niño’s demise have been -greatly exaggerated-demonstrably false. Very much to the contrary, El Niño is presently maintaining its record-breaking peak intensity, and temperature anomalies in the key Niño 3.4 region of the tropical Pacific Ocean are higher on both a weekly and monthly basis than they have been at any time since at least the 1950s (surpassing even the 1982-1983 and 1997-1998 events). Clearly, an extremely strong El Niño remains deeply entrenched in the Pacific–and, as I’ll discuss shortly, California weather impacts are starting to emerge.”
Our local forecast is for rain to begin Thursday afternoon/evening and continue into Friday, with another storm possible on Sunday. Most of us have been getting ready for months. Now we will find out how ready we really are. I bought myself a radio/flashlight that has the Monterey Weather station on it that runs via solar power or hand crank. It can even charge my cell phone, if necessary! Extra wool socks and heavy leggings were tucked in my Amazon box, too (as well as some things for others).
5:30 pm – final tally – 4/10ths of an inch.
1:40 pm – rain has arrived. Gentle rain. 48 degrees outside, 65 in.
10:00 am – According to most of my weather sources, it is on the way and will arrive this afternoon, gracing us with moisture on and off most of the afternoon. As of yet, I haven’t found a decent radar pic, but will post if I do. Enjoy, and drive safely.
I added a new link for the wonderful non-profit, CPOA. I don’t know how they were overlooked. I’ve been a member since 1985. No organization opens their checkbook faster to our community when disaster strikes. Sorry for oversight.
from Accuweather via Mike Morales. 😅
