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Weather & Climate

A collection of 284 issues

An Update on Spring: Green, Green, Green

We're thrilled with the winter that we've received so far. We're near 35 inches of rain since October, which is the most we've received in four years. We've had periods of extended cold, which got the vineyard fully dormant. For

Found Food Photos: Miner's Lettuce

As those of you who have been following the blog regularly know, we've had a wet winter this year. These last two weeks have been a beautiful interlude in the rainy weather, but we're excited to see the return of the el nino-influenced pattern next week,

A Dewy Morning on Adelaida Road

I had to head out to the vineyard early Sunday morning to get my wine for the Paso Robles Rhone Rangers Experience. It was, as is not unusual at this time of year, foggy downtown (Salinas Valley fog, come up from the cold waters of the Monterey Bay) but clear

Vineyard pruning 2010, and a chance to fill in missing vines

With a letup in the rain that is supposed to last about a week, we're taking the opportunity to get out into the vineyard to prune where we can. In addition to allowing us to shape the vine and control the next year's yields, pruning stimulates

Photos from a break in the week of storms

It's been pretty wooly out here the past few days. We've had three storms in three days. The first storm, on Sunday afternoon, gave us about half an inch of rain and some winds up around 30mph. Yesterday's storm was bigger, with about an

The Gathering Storm: A Preview of a Potentially Historic Week of Weather

As those of you who have been following the blog regularly know, 2009 was our third consecutive year of drought. Among the drought's other impacts, we have seen yields decline each of the three yields, and in 2009 will make nearly 40% less wine than we did at

A great photo of a fair-weather winter sky (a.k.a. "transitory ridging")

We're enjoying a period of what our meteorologist calls "transitory ridging" -- as I understand it, high pressure that moves over an area in between two low pressure systems rather one that establishes itself in an area and diverts low pressure systems around it. It has

Crescent Moon over Tablas Creek

When I left the vineyard today, at the time of day when the sky is lighter than the ground but not so much that it's not photographable, the crescent moon was hanging over the Tablas Creek winery building. I grabbed the camera, and got a shot I liked.

Winter Sunset Panoramas

The winter sunsets in Paso Robles are often spectacular. The current weather pattern, with a mix of clouds and sun, captures the red glow of the setting sun. In summertime, when humidity levels are very low and clouds rare, sunsets are long-lasting but usually subtle. In wintertime, the sunsets move

A paean to rain (and a phone call to Mabel)

I'm sitting here on a Saturday evening, kids in bed, listening to the rain come down. It's an incredibly sweet sound, both because I've always loved the sound of rain at night and also because I know how important it is that we have