This innocuous-looking little cell over #Berkeley just produced .25 inches of rain in less than 15 minutes. #cawx

This morning's San Ramon #earthquake swarm. A 3.8-magnitude quake kicked off the sequence at 9:38 a.m. PST About 40 more shakes, most between magnitude 1.0 and 2.0, have occurred since.

The same area experienced prolonged earthquake swarms in 1990 and 2015.

Just had another little shake -- 2.2 magnitude, the red dot on the USGS map -- along the Hayward Fault in #Berkeley. Yellow dots mark quakes from the past week; white dots show quakes since the series began with a 4.3 temblor on Sept. 22. #earthquakes @kqednews.kqed.org

Anonymous #KQED staff members voice concerns about company's layoffs and 15% reduction in force — in "open letters" posted around the station's San Francisco neighborhood.

KQED's story on layoffs here: www.kqed.org/news/1204812...

Interesting to look at the statement from last year's press release (and previous years, as well). A lot of it is the same boilerplate. But see the next-to-last sentence:

Strolling past the Campanile at UC Berkeley, came across this memorial for Annie, a peregrine falcon who nested atop the bell tower for years (and raised more than 20 offspring), and Archie, her most recent mate. Biologists believe avian flu killed both birds. More: news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/24/u...

"A single severely dry winter temporarily, but dramatically, altered the ranges of three fishes — Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead trout — in California’s northern waterways." #cawater #casalmon #salmon

Wow! It’s a toll scam! Two in one day!

Looking at the senders’ IDs, it looks like they’ve given up pretending to be legit.

February 12: Lincoln's birthday, which puts me in mind both of the Memorial in Washington (photo credit: Wei/Flickr) and the 1963 Bill Mauldin cartoon, which seems appropriate today. (More on Mauldin's work here: www.everygoddamnday.com/2013/11/linc... )

Some rainfall totals for N. Calif. since storm began late last week:
Four Trees (Feather R. drainage, above L. Oroville): 21.12 in.
Girard (Sacramento R., above Shasta L.): 19.56
Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak: 15.59
(And many from 10-17 in.).
#cawx @KQEDNews
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Pardon me, ESPN, why did you turn over your football broadcast for the president to merely recap his inaugural speech? He barely mentioned the game until he’d run through his grievances and “American exceptionalism” commentary.

.@berkeleyca.gov wants residents' feedback on today's tsunami response and evacuation order:
www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZMB9QGH
#berkeley #tsunamiwarning @kqednews.bsky.social

A glance via NOAA's Calif-Nevada River Forecast Ctr. at 24-hour storm totals. Note the 2 gauges at upper left: Austin Creek (10 in.) and Venado (9.48 in.) Austin's gauge first tipped at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday, Venado's 5 minutes later. #cawx @kqedscience.bsky.social
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12-hour and 1-hour rain totals so far via Califorrnia-Nevada River Forecast Center. #cawx
www.cnrfc.noaa.gov

This morning’s weather show. Just a few desultory drops of rain so far at the southern edge of the atmospheric river. Over 3 in. So far in areas up the coast. #cawx

High risk area includes Coast Range & rivers just south of Eureka — including Point Mendocino, Punta Gorda, the Mattole & Eel rivers. The Calif.-Nev. River Forecast Ctr.'s precipitation forecast paints a bull's-eye in this area, with more than 20 in. of rain falling there through next Monday. #cawx

NOAA's Weather Prediction Center on this week storm: “Life-threatening flooding and rainfall. … Worst of the event unfolds Weds-Fri with a high risk of excessive rainfall for parts of the N. California coast Thursday. Dangerous flash flooding, rock slides and debris flows are likely.” #cawx

Speaking of literal blue sky, here's weekend lifestyle advice via @NWSBayArea ... #cawx