Tuesday, November 8, 2005

I Voted

The trouble with these special elections is that they combine precincts so your polling place can wind up being quite some distance. Mine was and for some reason, I decided to walk to it. Went right through the ballot in about twelve seconds and I felt like I wanted to ask the workers there, "Hey, you got anything else I can vote on? I came a long way to get here."

• Posted at 7:58 PM · LINK

Weather Report

Only early this morning did the two main weather models for Southern California finally come into agreement. Last night, the NAM was still forecasting a big Tuesday storm and the GFS was predicting minor rain chances through Friday. They finally split the difference and now foresee a big storm on Wednesday (though not as big as the NAM was anticipating) tapering off on Thursday.

Or at least, that's what the weather folks are saying at the moment. This is a cut-off low (i.e., "weatherman's woe") so any forecast has to be qualified with the reminder that these things are hard to gauge and that plans can change rapidly. Keep the umbrella handy.

• Posted at 12:47 PM · LINK