Blog # 2

For the past two days the entire state of California has experiencing a cold front system working into our weather patterns. This cold front storm was a violent, wet, and windy storm that lasted about two and a half days long. This caused many power outages and car accidents around the city of Sacramento. Because this was the first storm of the season of course all the oils on the streets and highways were causing the roads to be a lot slicker than normal. Along with these accidents and power outages came flooded areas around Sacramento and the entire Central Valley, and caused many trees to be knocked over by the heavy waters and violent winds.
Back in the Bay Area, where my family still lives, there was just as violent storming dumping out there. However, the major difference I have noticed since living in the Bay Area as compared to Sacramento, is that the roads are a lot better designed for the raining season out in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. I did receive a phone call from my family informing me that all the rain had triggered an earthquake back home, the magnitude however I am unaware of.
This violent cold front storm is exactly what we were told would happen in class. It was only two and a half days long. But it was violent, wet, windy, and extremely colder than it was during the constant temperature of the last few weeks.

Blog Assignment 1

I've noticed that as we've gotten closer to the autumn equinox, the days have gotten shorter and the nights have progressively gotten longer and longer. During the peak of summer the days were extremely long, with sun rise coming around 6am and not setting till nearly 9pm. Now the sun is starting to rise around 7am and is setting around 7pm. We are now only two days away from the autumn equinox and even though the weather is still really hot, the nights are still getting colder and longer.
I just returned from a trip to Los Angeles and I noticed the same thing out there. Even though the Troposphere and Atmosphere in Los Angeles is polluted and dirty, the days were still hot yet it was getting dark alot sooner than it was over the peak of the summer months. Along with that, I also noticed the change of temperature from an inner city area as compared to an open rural area. In downtown Sacramento and Los Angeles I noticed that it felt warmer and slightly more humid as compared to the Elk Grove area and the Laguna area of Los Angeles. This now makes more sense to me on what we were talking about in class with the population density and the wind patterns changing the temperature of an area.