Legendary stage and screen actor Edward James Olmos, best known for his roles as the stolid Lieutenant Martin Castillo on "Miami Vice" and as cal-KOO-lus teacher Jaime Escalante in 1988's Stand and Deliver, turns 69 on Wednesday 2/24. He's a really good actor and I have long admired his activism, especially around Chicano issues. So he deserves a storm, right?
There are all sorts of factors at play for the EJO B-Day Storm: sun angle, jet stream, extreme low pressure, and convective bloviation.
Confession: that last thing, I made up. (All the rest of them are real.)
Here's what to expect over the next 10 days or so:
Tonight: cloudy with a shower or two. No big. Temperatures falling from the 50s now to the 30s by morning commute.
Monday 2/22: clearing with highs in the upper 40s.
Tuesday 2/23: afternoon showers with a high in the lower 40s, then rain likely in the evening and overnight. Lows will be at or just above freezing, so we could see some travel issues for the Wednesday morning commute. (If the storm tracks farther east, we could see a bit more of an issue with snow and/or ice. But right now, it looks like all rain.)
Wednesday 2/24: rainy and breezy all day with temps in the mid to upper 40s. We will likely get an inch to an inch and one or two fifths on Wednesday, so pondiness and flooded roadways are something to watch out for.
Chance of delay Wednesday: 21%
Chance of cancellation Wednesday: 6%
Thursday 2/25: overcast, quite windy and drizzly. Highs in the upper 40s.
Friday 2/26: partly cloudy, but breezy and noticeably cooler. Highs in the upper 30s will feel like the upper 20s. Overnight lows in the low 20s will feel like the teens. So, colder.
Saturday 2/27 and Sunday 2/28: sunny with highs only in the low to mid 30s.
Leap Day: snow. For real. Right now it looks like the kind of event that would give us 2-4 inches, but that's way premature. Nah, I shouldn't have said that. Forget I said that.
Lion Day: I call it that because March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. And because March 1 is also the birthday of Winston Rodney, better known as Burning Spear, who took his stage name from Kenya's liberator and namesake, Jomo Kenyatta, who was a contemporary of Haile Selassie, who is a central figure of Rastafarianism, which considers him "the conquering lion of the tribe of Judah." So it all fits.
Anywho, the weather on 3/1 will be sunny and cold (high near freezing).
Future action: Anything else on the horizon? Maybe a little dusting on Thursday 3/3. Otherwise, nah.
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