Spring arrives tonight at 10:14 PM PDT as today is the Vernal Equinox. This is one of the more confusing ones, because 10:14 PDT today is 1:14 AM EDT or 12:14 AM CDT tomorrow. So, this year, depending on which time zone you are in determines which day is the first day of spring…
This morning I was greeted by a pre-sunrise sun pillar on the way to work.
That was a nice late-winter storm the are had over the weekend, and the showers were spaced well enough to minimize runoff.
Condor Lookout had a peak wind of 61 MPG at 9:01 AM on Saturday, and SLOweather had a small bit of rice size hail at 11:45 the same day.
The WeatherElement stations in the area received the following totals from Friday through Monday morning:
Islay Hill 1.48″
SLO Water Reclamation Facility 1.75″
PGE Energy Education Center 1.34″
Baywood Park 1.31″
Prefumo Canyon 2.71″
The Mission (downtown) 2.46″
Santa Margarita Fire Dept. 2.31″
Point San Luis Lighthouse 1.26″
Creekside Farms/See Canyon 1.80″
Arroyo Grande 1.28″
Condor Lookout 1.87″