Fun WX Fact

They called this a fun WX fact but you would have to be into cold WX to consider this fun...

FUN FACT...LIVERMORE AVERAGE HIGH IS NOW 80 DEGREES. ONLY 3 DAYS THIS MONTH REACHED 80 OR HIGHER IN LIVERMORE AND THE LAST OCCURRED ON MAY 5TH...WITH MOST DAYS OBSERVING HIGHS ONLY IN THE 60S SINCE THEN. IN ADDITION...OVER THE PAST THREE WEEKS MANY LOCATIONS ARE SEEING AVERAGE HIGHS THAT ARE CLOSE TO THE COLDEST EVER FOR THAT PERIOD. HOWEVER IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THIS SAME THREE WEEK STRETCH LAST YEAR WAS EVEN SLIGHTLY COOLER FOR HIGHS IN MANY LOCATIONS.

Source: www.weather.gov/zov
under the Aviation Text link

nasty storm tonight mid-country

ATIS error?

Hmm... what error has been made in this morning's ATIS?


KPAO 281447Z 28007KT 20SM SCT030 BKN10 13/08 A3001

Interesting METAR for SQL

KSQL 022151Z 33010KT 30SM FEW010 FEW015 SCT180 23/07 A3024 RMK FU

I haven't seen an FU before.

If you look it up you will find it stands for "smoke"

There was an explosion/fire south of SQL yesterday afternoon at the Graniterock plant ... Smoke was thick and black as it was two tanks of liquid asphalt.
The location was pretty much at the base to final turn for a long final (abeam Kaiser).

It attarcted 3 news helicopters and SQL suspended closed traffic.