In centuries past, great rains deluged the Pacific Coast, and strong storms in recent decades have caused havoc and ruin. But, because of climate change, this one would be worse than any in living memory.
From the San Francisco Bay Area to Southern California, between 1 inch and 4 inches of rain fell in many areas. Some parts of the hills and mountains received up to 7 inches of rain over two days, sending water rushing in creeks.
Rain Across My Heart
The amount of rainfall varied widely across Southern California. Less than an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles, while Pasadena recorded about 3.5 inches and Burbank saw 1.2 inches, according to the National Weather Service. More than 5 inches of rain fell in parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Runways were cleared, the lights came back on and stranded motorists and airline passengers were back on the move on Thursday as the blizzard that pounded the U.S. Rocky Mountain and Plains states shoves eastward and fizzled to rain.
Stranded motorists across the region had been reached and helped before midnight, a spokesman for the Colorado State Patrol spokesman said early Thursday. Around 1,100 motorists were reported as stranded on Interstate 25 near Colorado Springs a day earlier.
"By mid-morning the heart of the storm will be western Iowa, headed toward Wisconsin and Michigan, where it will bring about a half-inch of warm rain," Hurley said. Some flood watches and warnings were in place in the midwest as rain will spur accumulated snow to melt, he said.
Since my mother left, rain has fallen every week, sometimes every day. The big creeks and rivers in the flats are above flood stage; rills of silver water lace through the pastures in the foothills, and as I drive through the mountains, I surge through sheets of water that flow across the highway. Waterfalls cut the canyon walls and bring rock and dirt tumbling across both lanes.
Two sweeping winter storm systems have made landfall in Santa Cruz County in the past two weeks and more are expected in the days ahead, bringing local rain totals well above the watermark average during the wettest time of the season.
Preliminary rain totals were measured at 3.58 inches in Ben Lomond, 4.65 inches in Happy Valley, 3.7 inches in La Selva Beach and 4.20 inches in Soquel. Ben Lomond has received more than 20 inches of rainfall this season to date, followed by Happy Valley, which has tallied about 18.5 inches so far.
O Tennessee, that gave us birth,To thee our hearts bow downFor thee our love and loyaltyShall weave a fadeless crownThy purple hills our cradle was;Thy fields our mother breastBeneath thy sunny bended skies,Our childhood days were blessed
I thumbed my way from LA back to KnoxvilleI found out those bright lights ain't where I belongFrom a phone booth in the rain I called to tell herI've had a change of dreams I'm comin' homeBut tears filled my eyes when I found out she was gone
Smoky Mountain rain keeps on fallin'I keep on callin' her nameSmoky Mountain rain I'll keep on searchin'I can't go on hurtin' this wayShe's somewhere in the Smoky Mountain rain
Oh Tennessee, I long to come back home.I guess your dew has settled on my soul.Everyday I stayed away,You called my heart back, home to stay.Oh Tennessee, I long to come back home.
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The Polar Pro strap is great as a replacement strap for a Garmin modular HRM like the HRM-Dual or the original HRM-Run. I have used an HRM-3 pod on a Polar Pro and Polar Soft strap with no issues. I have a training partner who uses a modular HRM-Run with a Polar Pro strap.
The difference between 46, 50, and 54 is huge (+-4). I have seen a study that show the VO2max estimate is ok on average across the study group but for individuals the deviation from measured by gas exchange can be significant.
Many people noticed that their VO2max estimate changed a lot when changing from the f5 to the f6 or when different firmware comes out. I think this is also evidence that the estimate is not comparable across device generations and even firmware revisions.
A phenomenon I see a lot is Joe gets and Bill do a workout together. Joe struggled a bit to keep up. At the end his f235 says 54, yay! But then Bill has his f6 that says 47. A third training partner may see 50. Hmmm.
In the current implementation VO2Max is mostly used as a way of checking if the the user is getting better or worse. Is he running with higher HR for the same GAP or lower? Based on that every run will make VO2Max go a little bit lower or higher. Very rarely will you go up or down more than 1 point because of that. Then depending if the training load is increasing or decreasing you get the status: productive, overreaching, etc.
Interesting. The chest straps measures the electrical signal produced by your heart beat, so it certainly makes sense that there could be electrical interference from nearby sources. And it makes sense that BLE and ANT+ are affected the same; the interference is affecting what the strap is sensing, rather than the data connection between the strap and your device.
Hi, thanks for the detailed review. May i know if the Polar H10 is compatible with Garmin Fenix 7x where it can push the heart rate data to the watch during activity or swimming (after surfacing). thank you
When my father died, I went home and planned his funeral in three days. I picked up his ashes, from the funeral parlor, alone. The funeral director walked me to the car in a light rain. He kept offering me his elbow but I didn\u2019t want him to touch me. In the car, I sat with the weight of my dead father in my lap. He was in a white square that had a strange rattle to it, the rattle of bits of bone and teeth in the new powder of him. I was thinking then how when I was a child, he\u2019d held me in his lap. This was the first and only time the positions would be reversed. When I drove home, in the light rain, I sobbed so hard I was sure I would crash the car.
Then COVID hit, and we were in lockdown. I was stuck with my grief. I couldn\u2019t avoid it. I was in a room with it, I had to stare at it, I had to take it apart and understand it. Some days, it was unbearable to withstand it. Other days, it retreated and I could breathe. Even medicated, the loss was harrowing to live with \u2014 a permanent arrow lodged in my heart that I had to live around, shifting my body in agony every moment.
I placed them in a small glass house so I could see inside. The eggshells layer on top of each other, a delicate fortress that would collapse beneath a fist. I wasn\u2019t sure why I had done any of this, but by the end, there was no difference between the sculpture and the inside of my heart \u2014 fragile, jagged, beautiful, temporary.
It sits next to my father\u2019s ashes, two objects I\u2019m not sure how to move but which have to come with me. It is an impossible task, to carry the memory and the grief. It is like carrying palmfuls of eggshells across the country. I\u2019m not sure how to carry either of them, but I cannot leave them behind.
From San Jose to San Francisco and across the bay in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the National Weather Service forecasters predicted between a half-inch and three-quarters of an inch of rain Thursday, with most of the downpour coming before 4 p.m. The storm originated in the Pacific Northwest and pushed south early Thursday.
The weather service anticipated enough rain that it issued a flood advisory along the coastal areas from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, as well as the inland bay areas from Concord to San Jose. Minor flooding of highways, streets and underpasses was expected, according to the weather service.
Forecasters said a cold front is trailing the storm, meaning temperatures are expected to drop soon after the rain slows. In San Jose, temperatures overnight Thursday and into Friday are forecast at 29 degrees. The East Bay was expected to see temperatures in the mid-30s late Thursday, while temperatures on the Peninsula and in San Francisco were expected in the high-30s, the weather service says.
While rainfall soaks the Bay Area, the weather service issued a winter storm warning for Lake Tahoe and the Sierra from Thursday until early Friday. Parts of the Sierra Nevada are expected to receive as much as 3 feet of snow. 2ff7e9595c
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