January 15, 2005 |
9:20am:
CalTrans has decided to shut down one lane of Interstate 15 northbound
south of the Highway 79 exit in Temecula
as a precaution, according to a story
in The Californian
this morning. A mudslide below the freeway onto the Temecula Creek golf
course has undermined the road. A blocked drainpipe caused rainwaters
to saturate the soil instead of running off.
The lane may be closed two weeks while CalTrans repairs the slope.
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Other roads that remain closed include Pauba Road east of Temecula, Pala
Road south of Temecula (repairs there are underway), and the Ortega
Highway between Lake Elsinore and San Juan Capistrano.
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January 14, 2005 |
4:50pm:
Prado Dam in the Corona area has been reportedly shored up, the
mandatory evacuation has been lifted, and Highway 71 has reopened this
afternoon.
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1:45pm:
There are news reports today of a minor leak in the Prado Dam, which holds back
the Santa Ana River in the Corona area, near the intersections of
Highway 71 and Highway 91. The area has been evacuated as a precaution,
and Highway 71 is closed in both directions.
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January 10, 2005 |
11:10pm: The
heavy rainfall story
has been updated with more road closings, some pictures, the reopening
of Highway 79 South in Temecula, other online news articles, and more.
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1:10pm: A feature
story on this weekend's heavy rainfall
has been posted.
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January 9, 2005 |
5:20pm: A particularly heavy band of rain is
currently hitting the Fallbrook area, accompanied with wind gusts to 30 mph.
Lightning and thunder have been reported with this latest deluge.
WeatherCurrents' mobile site has been updated today
with increased forecast information, as well as some of the past weather
information. This is the first real update in quite some time.
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January 6, 2005 |
9:20am: The owner and operator of
WeatherCurrents.com, John Toman, was interviewed this week
for a radio program that will air this Sunday between 7:00am and 7:30am
on local Temecula radio stations 94.5 and 103.3.
This morning's earthquake felt in
parts of southwestern Riverside County at about 6:35am was 4.4 on the
richter scale and centered in Fontana up in San Bernardino County.
See the
Southern California Earthquake Data Center for details.
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December 31, 2004 |
11:15am: Rainfall reports for Tuesday's and
Wednesday's storm from the Fallbrook area:
Location |
Storm |
Source |
Winterwarm |
3.67" |
WeatherCurrents |
Winterwarm |
4.10" |
Dan Townley |
De Luz |
3.00" |
Steve Rhodes |
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December 23, 2004 |
8:30am: A serendipitous series of events
in De Luz should lead to a WeatherCurrents weather site for the hills
north of Fallbrook in early January. Sue and Dave Painter have purchased
a compatible weather station and are planning on hooking it into the
WeatherCurrents network after it's installed. It will be interesting to
compare and contrast De Luz weather to Fallbrook.
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December 10, 2004 |
12:00pm: Links to the National Weather
Service's soaring forecast have been restored on all of the
sites. They
had been previously lost in the NWS web site redesign this past summer.
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December 8, 2004 |
7:15am: The Press-Enterprise
reported yesterday
(note: registration required to read the story) that
the fire season has officially ended in southern California, something
that was widely expected after the frequent rainfall. In northern California,
the fire season had been declared over in October.
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November 29, 2004 |
8:42pm: Frost Warning:
A cold night is in store, and scattered frost is predicted in the
Fallbrook area tomorrow morning. Currently a low temperature of
32°F is predicted.
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November 23, 2004 |
9:36am: Rainfall reports for this
past Sunday:
Location |
Storm |
Source |
Winterwarm |
0.52" |
WeatherCurrents |
Winterwarm |
0.57" |
Dan Townley |
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November 21, 2004 |
11:07am: Scott Chester has
confirmed that there was no snow today in the vicinity of the Fallbrook
weather station in the Winterwarm area.
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10:23am: Those interested can
read
about this morning's snowfall in southwestern Riverside County. No
confirmation from any of you in Fallbrook yet today as to whether or not
it has snowed there. Snow has been confirmed in De Luz, however.
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7:45am: Snow!? Snow has been falling in
the Temecula Valley this morning. If you've seen snow in the Fallbrook area
today, please tell us.
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November 11, 2004 |
7:55am: Rainfall reports
for the Fallbrook area for the recent storm:
Location |
Storm |
Source |
Winterwarm |
0.34" |
WeatherCurrents |
Winterwarm |
0.45" |
Dan Townley |
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November 9, 2004 |
6:25am: Once again, if you've recorded
rainfall from Sunday and Monday's storm,
please submit
your totals and we will publish them here tonight.
Please include your location (including major cross streets).
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October 30, 2004 |
9:05am: Rainfall reports
for the Fallbrook area:
Location |
Storm |
October |
Source |
Winterwarm |
3.05" |
7.70" |
WeatherCurrents |
Winterwarm |
3.42" |
7.68" |
Dan Townley |
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October 28, 2004 |
7:50am: If you've recorded rainfall
from this past storm, please submit
your totals and we will run them here perhaps tomorrow.
Please include your location (including major cross streets). Also,
any storm-related pictures
would be appreciated; a feature story on the record October rainfall
is coming soon.
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6:30am: An early morning thunderstorm
has left nearly half an inch of rain in Temecula and Fallbrook,
and a lesser amount in Murrieta, and may have woken some people early.
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October 27, 2004 |
9:40pm: Today's rainfall total of 2.17"
so far is the most ever recorded by TemeculaWeather.com in its five year
history, beating 1.99" on February 25, 2003. Today's total of 3.06" in
Murrieta is the highest one day rainfall recorded by any of WeatherCurrents'
sites.
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6:45am: Areas susceptible to flooding will
likely be flooded this morning after heavy rainfall this morning. Exercise
care driving today; conditions will be treacherous.
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October 27, 2004 |
6:45am: Areas susceptible to flooding will
likely be flooded this morning after heavy rainfall this morning. Exercise
care driving today; conditions will be treacherous.
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October 25, 2004 |
3:50pm: This past weekend we began
showing sunrise and sunset information on all WeatherCurrents sites.
This information is located in the "Currently" section on each main
page, underneath "Temperature, Humidity, Wind & Pressure". There is
some (but very little) variability of times between the
various communities. Note that the times are based on a flat horizon.
Hills in some communities will cause the actual sunrise to be later
and the actual sunset to be sooner.
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October 22, 2004 |
3:35pm: After a week of wet weather and
between 2 and 5 inches of rain in San Diego and Riverside counties,
fire season in the northern part of California has been declared over, but
fire units are still on alert
in our region. Fire officials are warning that one strong Santa Ana wind
event could dry out vegetation.
We've also finally released a
chronology of significant
wildfires in Southwest Riverside County and the Fallbrook area.
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October 20, 2004 |
1:25pm: Bird droppings alert! Some of
today's rain at the Fallbrook weather station was held up by a clog
in the rain gauge. The clog has been cleared and the water has gone
through. As a result, hourly records for last night and this morning
may not be accurate until noontime.
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October 18, 2004 |
10:15am: New today is the
current local weather roundup page.
For those who would like to see current information for all of WeatherCurrents'
weather sites, including temperatures, rainfall and wind data, the
new page offers a convenient one stop summary.
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October 15, 2004 |
3:15pm: The National Weather Service
has updated their forecast for this weekend. Rain is likely west of
the mountains for late Saturday night and Sunday morning. Up to half
an inch is possible. A tropical system is being tracked, and if moisture
from it mixes in, totals could be higher.
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October 8, 2004 |
9:55am: The National Weather Service
links have been updated to new equivalents, where possible. They'd all
broken earlier this week as a result of a web site reorganization.
Gone for now is the soaring forecast; it'll be restored as soon as we
can figure out where it went.
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October 3, 2004 |
5:53pm: The custom graphics for the
Fallbrook weather site are completed and now showing.
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September 22, 2004 |
7:20am: Problems with the wind sensor have
been corrected and the directional reading should be correct.
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September 19, 2004 |
3:50pm: Problems have been discovered with
the wind sensor (anemometer) for Fallbrook. It seems to be reading easterly
when it should read westerly. We're hoping to discover the source of the
problem and correct it soon.
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September 11, 2004 |
11:00am: Today is the third anniversary of
the September 11th terrorist attacks on our nation. So many ordinary people
made sacrifices that day to save others. We will never forget.
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September 1, 2004 |
10:15am: Although there aren't any older
Augusts to base on, temperatures this past August were likely milder than
usual in the Fallbrook area. August in Fallbrook was definitely cooler than
July in any event. In nearby Temecula, this past August was
the mildest in at least six years. Early September predictions indicate
potential for above normal temperatures.
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July 31, 2004 |
9:58am: This morning's eight hour service
outage was caused by faulty software on the web server. Apologies if you
were trying to access the web server before 8:30am this morning, when the
problem was resolved.
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July 14, 2004 |
11:54pm: Links to the Fallbrook site are
being made available tonight.
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July 12, 2004 |
11:25am: Wind data has been online since
Saturday. The wind sensor cable is too short and will need to be replaced
with a longer one soon, but that makes the Fallbrook weather station
feature complete. Graphics are coming, and a sneak peek site launch
will occur this week, with a full launch and announcement probably
next week.
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June 5, 2004 |
11:35pm: The data on the server has been
reset and temperature, humidity and barometric pressure from the Fallbrook
weather station are now accurate. Precipitation and wind data will follow in
the next couple of weeks. This site remains a work in progress, with an
official launch two to three weeks away.
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